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The Wellington Steel Tube. Co.Ltd was a family business mainly based on the borders of
West Bromwich and
Tipton,
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
,
England and which closed in 1969. Owned by the Turner family - who also owned the
Upper Arley estate in
Worcestershire and created many in-jokes about Wellington there - it employed generations of
Black Country
The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands county, England covering most of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall. Dudley and Tipton are generally considered to be the centre. It became industrialised during its ro ...
people in hot rolled sections and tubes amongst other areas.
The site was later sold to the
British Steel Corporation,
Babcock International and other concerns before in 1998 or 1999 being sold to
Asda Stores. It now holds a superstore and petrol station. The site is officially called Wellington Park; and a canal bridge provided by Asda is marked as Wellington Bridge on maps.
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Steel companies of the United Kingdom
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1969