The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a
United Kingdom
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steel
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producer. The company was jointly owned by
Cammell Laird
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and
Vickers
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and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the
Sheffield
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area but also including a plant in
Openshaw,
Manchester
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.
The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the
Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain
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The Iron & Steel Act 1949 took effect on 15 February 1951, the Corporation becoming the sole shareholder of 80 of ...
, was denationalised shortly afterwards, and renationalised and was absorbed into
British Steel Corporation
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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
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.
For more information see the constituent companies articles.
Sources
* Whitaker's Almanack (various dates)
External links
* http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/English_Steel_Corporation
A 1939 ''Flight'' advertisement for the English Steel Corporation (ESC)*
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Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Steel companies of the United Kingdom
Former nationalised industries of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in Sheffield
Vickers