Development of Corby Works

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Written by a senior manager in the business. Deals with the building and development of Corby steel and tube production works by Stewarts & Lloyds in the interwar years, providing context with a history of Lloyds Ironstone Co Ltd, the wider strategy of Stewarts & Lloyds, and the activities of other group businesses such as North Lincolnshire Iron Co Ltd, Alfred Hickman Ltd, and Oxfordshire Ironstone Co Ltd. Chapters include; 'LLoyds Ironstone Co Ltd, 1880-1918'; 'Early interest of Stewarts & Lloyds in coal and iron ore'; 'North Lincolnshire Iron Co Ltd'; 'Alfred Hickman Ltd'; 'Oxfordshire Ironstone Co Ltd'; 'Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd general policy, 1921-30'; 'Appointment of H A Brassert & Co Ltd and their first report, February 1930'; 'Ironstone reserves'; 'Study of the Brassert Report and discussions of finance, March to October 1930'; 'Modification of the first Brassert Report, leading to Scheme II, September 1932'; 'The Corby Scheme as approved November 1931 and the building of the works'; 'Tube manufacturing processes'; 'Water supplies'; 'Labour and trade union relations'; 'Housing''; 'Ancilliary problems'. Extensive appendices [pp134-274] provide transcriptions of documentation relating to the project