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Yorkshire Imperial Metals Ltd., Landore Works, Swansea
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- Dates of Creation1811-1980
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Descriptionc. 80 items
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Administrative / Biographical History
Vivian and Sons was founded by John Vivian, a Cornish copper mining entrepreneur. He opened his own copper smelting works, Hafod Copper Works, in 1809. The Hafod works had become a leading smelting house by 1820. In 1924 Vivian and Sons Limited amalgamated with the other major copper smelting firm in Swansea, Williams Foster and Company and Pascoe Grenfell and Sons Limited, to form British Copper Manufacturers' Limited. This was taken over in 1927 by Yorkshire Imperial Metals Limited, a joint company of Yorkshire Metals and Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (ICI).
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