Wages book

This material is held atGlamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg

Scope and Content

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.

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.