Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland Cement Company, Records

Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland Cement Company records comprising of papers; plans; description of works; prospectus; offer for shares certificate and results of tests, 1914-1932

The company was established under prospectus 1912. The first directors were John W Beynon, director of the Rhymney Railway Co and The Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co; Sydney H Byass, director of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Co; E Reginald Moxey, director of the Taff Vale Railway Co; PW Tolhurst, a civil engineer, and former managing director of Messrs Tolhurst & Sons Ltd, cement manufacturers, Gravesend, Kent; and Oliver H Valpy, Sloane Square, London. The cement works were constructed in 1913-14 by the Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland Cement Co Ltd and established a reputation for high quality cement manufacture. Descriptions and illustrations of the works are given in D116/1, 2.

Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland Cement Company records arranged by item

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Deposited by Cornwall County Records Office, 2002

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