The book clearly relates to a metallurgical works. It refers to fitters, crane attendants, locomotive drivers, smelting furnaces, platelayers, Terrace Pits, stokers, a port engineer, a dolomite and manganese house, pig iron, and Frank Weale & Co.
Wages book
This material is held atGlamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
- Reference
- GB 214 D243/7
- Dates of Creation
- Sep 1906-Apr 1907
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- 1 volume
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The provenance of the volume is uncertain but appears to relate to the Port Talbot Steel Co. Ltd. Descriptions of industrial procedures, purchases and employees suggest a metallurgical works and there are references to a manager Walter B. Turnock, Cadoxton House, Aberavon. The Port Talbot Steel Co. Ltd. was formed in August 1906 and passed in 1916 to Baldwins Ltd.