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Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ell in the market for rods, hoops,and bars ; the Iron is soft and good, their rods and hoopsare exported largely by the Liverpool merchants;they make bars, hoops, rods and small and largeangles, small and large rounds and squares, sheets andplates. These works have always been carried on veryregularly, and the quahty of the L*on is noted for itsuniformity. The firm is well supphed with coal of thebest quahty from its own mines, and the 400 tons ofhigh-class Pig Iron, made at their Withymoor furnacesper week, gives a thoroughly StaiSbrdshire character to the malleable Iron they produce. Having noticed all the most famous malleable Ironmakers, before concluchng this part of Staffordshiremetallm*gical manufacture, we must refer to the Steelmanufacture, which, although not so extensive here asin Sheffield, and at Barrow-in-Furness, there are oneor two concerns which claim particular attention.Twenty years since, a method of puddhng Iron intoSteel was discovered in Staffordshire, which, for
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