English Steel Corporation

The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom steel producer. The company was jointly owned by Cammell Laird and Vickers and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the Sheffield area but also including a plant in Openshaw, Manchester.

The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, was denationalised shortly afterwards, and renationalised and was absorbed into British Steel in 1967. It was then subsequently privatised. Eventually the present business was acquired by a management buy out in 2005 and is now called Sheffield Forgemasters.

For more information see the constituent companies articles.

Sources

Whitaker's Almanack (various dates)

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Companies and former companies based in Sheffield, England (or with a significant presence)

Modern manufacturing and distribution companies	Ancon Clark Wilson Benesch Berkart Henry Boot Bramah Engineering Catterly Laser Cutting Co. Corus Group Davey Markham JF Finnigans Firth Rixson Fletchers Bakery Sheffield Forgemasters Company M J Gleeson Group Plc Hendersons (Sheffield) Ltd Kelham Island Brewery) Land Pyrometers Arnold Laver Northern Foods Outokumpu formerly (Avesta Polarit)^t/o / BSC Stainless^t/o ROM Reinforcement Ronseal Paints SIG plc Tinsley Bridge Wincro Metals

Modern retail and service industry	Atkinsons Stores HSBC Irwin Mitchell John Lewis PlusNet Powerminster Sheffield Hallam University Tuffnells Parcel Express University of Sheffield Williams Fastners WANdisco Zoo Digital

Traditional heavy industry (steel and engineering)	BOC ^t/o British Steel ^t/o British Steel Corporation ^p Brown Bayley Steels Newton, Chambers & Company NCK-Rapier Cammell ^t/o Coopers (Fastners) Chesterfield Cylinders Cravens Daniel Doncasters Ltd Davey McKee^t/o Davey Lowevy^t/o Trafalgar House Engineering ^t/o Edgar Allen & Company ^t/o English Steel Corporationⁿ Firth Brown Steelsⁿ Firth Vickers Laycocks^t/o Samuel Sheffield Forgemasters Thomas Ward Tinsley Wire Industries Ltd (TWIL) ^t/o Sanderson Kayser

Cutlers - silversmiths - surgical instruments	Arthur Price B.Braun-Downs Surgical^t/o Richard Carr (Silversmiths) James Dixon & Co. Durham Duplex Harrison Bros & Howson Hutton Mappin and Webb ^t/o Martin Hall Needham, Veall & Tyzack Joseph Rodgers Swann Morton Surmanco Skidmore Taylors Eye-Witness Ltd Thornton (Impants) Viners^t/o Walker & Hall^t/o Thomas Wostenholm

Tool manufacturers	Dormer (Tools)^r Footprint Tools Henry Taylor Tools Neepsend Stanley Tools (Sheffield)^r Atkinsons (Saws) Easterbrook Allcard & Company G & J Hall Ketona (Shears) Joseph Marples Moore & Wright James Neil (Tools) Niloc Osborne Mushett Paddley & Venables Record Ridgeway Rabone Chesterman Shardlows The Sheffield Twist Drill Company Spear & Jackson Thomas Turner & Co.(Files & Knifes) Tyzacks Sons & Turner(Saws) Thomas Flinn & Co. Standall Tools Steadfast (Tools) Tyzack Machine Knives

Miscellaneous formerly Sheffield based companies	Batchelors^t/o Dyson Refractories^t/o Stones Brewery^t/o Trebor Bassett Sweets^t/o Richardson Sheffield^t/o Thorntons Chocolates ^r S.H. Wards Brewery^t/o

Defunct	English Steel Corporation Samuel Fox and Company Hadfields Limited Samuel Osborn & Company Jessop Saville & Company Sheffield Coal Company Simplex Cars Steel, Peech and Tozer United Steel Companies Vickers Limited Vicker, Son & Maxim William Jessop & Sons Yorkshire Engine Company

See also	Economy of Sheffield List of companies in Sheffield

t/o - Taken over, n - Nationalised, p - Privatised, a - Active, d - Defunct, h - High tech, e - E-Commerce, f - Financial services r - Relocated