Catalogue description Records of Firth Brown Ltd of Sheffield.

This record is held by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust

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Reference: MNFB
Title: Records of Firth Brown Ltd of Sheffield.
Description:

Rule books for cranes; plans and diagrams; notes on stripping ingots and ingot moulds; wage slips; newsletters; reports; descriptions of metallurgical processes; technical data on steam turbine rotor forgings; lecture notes; plans of Atlas Melting Shop.
Date: 1840-1975
Held by: Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Firth Brown Ltd of Sheffield
Physical description: c775 files
Subjects:
  • Metal industry
Administrative / biographical background:

Firm established in the 1930s on the amalgamation of Thomas Firth and Sons with John Brown and Company Ltd of Atlas Works, Sheffield; Thomas Firth and Sons had been established in 1837 and registered as a company in 1881. Firth Brown Tools Ltd was established after World War II.
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