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Former British manufacturer
British Ropes was a company established on 6 June 1924 through the merger of eight companies.
The companies were:
Gateshead
Haggie Brothers, Gateshead
Tyne Wire Drawing Co (a subsidiary of the above)
Liverpool:
R. S. Newall and Son
London:
Bullivant and Co
Newcastle upon Tyne:
Thomas and William Smith
Sunderland:
Craven and Speeding and Co,
D. H. and G. Haggie
Wakefield:
George Craddock and Co
All but one of these companies were wire rope manufacturers (the exception being Craven and Speeding, which mainly manufactured binder twine). Over the next two years seventeen more companies were acquired, including wire drawers as well as manufacturers of wire rope and fibre rope; and the company began to invest in other ropemaking companies and associated industries, both at home and overseas.[1]
By the mid-1940s, the company had rationalised its manufacturing business by reducing wire rope manufacture to seven sites:[2]
Cardiff (formerly Excelsior Wire rope Co.)
Doncaster North Ropery (established 1935)
Doncaster South Ropery (established 1938)
Gateshead (formerly Haggie Bros.)
Retford (established 1935)
Rutherglen (formerly Allan, Whyte and Co)
Wakefield (formerly George Craddock and Co)
and fibre rope making to four sites:
Cardiff (formerly South Wales Rope Work Co)
Charlton (formerly Charlton Ropeworks)
Leith (formerly the Edinburgh Roperie and Sail Cloth Co)
Sunderland (formerly Craven and Speeding)
Over a dozen more companies were acquired subsequently (several of which included multiple subsidiary companies). By the late 1960s British Ropes owned or part-owned rope manufacturers and distributors across five continents. In 1972 the name of the parent company was changed to Bridon Ropes, with 'British Ropes' being retained as the name of a UK subsidiary.[2]
^British Ropes - Grace's Guide
^ abNational Archives: THE RECORDS OF BRIDON PLC, (FORMERLY BRITISH ROPES LTD) AND OF COMPANIES ACQUIRED BY IT
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