Catalogue description YATES, HAYWOOD AND CO. LTD, IRONFOUNDERS

Records of Yates, Haywood and Co. ironfounders, of Effingham Works, Rotherham

For other items relating to the company, see 93/B and 172/B. For James Yates's marriage settlement, see 164/22/1.

For further details of the company history, see Yates Haywood and Co. Ltd. - 150 Years of Stove Grate Manufacture by C. Morley (unpublished TS, ref. 942.741/670)

Yates, Haywood and Co Ltd, Rotherham, ironfounders

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The Company originated in 1823 when James Yates took over what was left of the Walkers' Foundry business and went into partnership with Charles Sandford at the Phoenix Works. In 1833 the Rotherham Foundry was taken over and in 1832 William Owen was taken into partnership. The partnership was dissolved in 1838, Sandford and Owen taking the Phoenix Works while Yates took the Rotherham Foundry which specialised in stove grate work. He also acquired the premises of the Masbrough Flax Works upon the site of which the Effingham Works was later erected. Yates remained on his own until c. 1846 when George Haywood and John Drabble were taken into partnership and the Company took the name Yates, Haywood and Co. When Drabble asked to retire in 1869 a new partnership was formed between James Yates, George Haywood, Robert Bentley Shaw (Yates's son-in-law) and George Harris Haywood. The Company was incorporated in 1879 under the title Yates, Haywood and Co. and Rotherham Foundry Company Limited.

The Company was put up for sale in 1911. The works and working patterns were acquired by O'Brien, Thomas and Co. of London, who continued to operate under in old name. In 1952 the link with O'Brien, Thomas and Co. was severed and a new limited company, Yates, Haywood and Co. Ltd. was formed. The company was taken over by William Heaton, Holdings Ltd. in 1967 and closed down in 1970

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