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Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t easy and .agreeable approach to whichis via ShifTnal with a carriage, through a beautifulcountry, the chief offices of the company being close toPriors Lee Hall. The Liheshall Coal and Iron Company employ thelargest number of men of any firm in Shropshire inthe LilleshaU mines and collieries, and at the blast fur-naces, and the great engine factory ;.and for many years,in point of magnitude and importance, have occupied,perhaps, the most important and prominent position ofany concern in Shropshire. The firm produces pig Iron,hot and cold blast, famed for its quality throughout theworld,^ and a large quantity of ccjal for the open marketbeyond that required to supply their own works; theylikewise have large fire-brick works, and one of themost extensive and well-equipped .engine shops in thekingdom, supplied with foundries, brass-casting shops, * LilleshaU pig Iron was found in the Emperor Theodores CannonFoundry in Magdala.in Abyssinia on the advent of the English forcesunderNapier.
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THE LILLESHALL COMPANYS GREAT FOUNDRY AND ENGINE FACTORY, Wln-rt Steam Hamin.-re, Loooniotivcs, and all kinds of Sham Engines are iiiadf. SHROPSHIRE IROX AXD COAL DISTRICT. 103 and all kinds of machinery adapted to the manufactureof the largest steam-engines of all kinds. A largebusiness is done here in locomotives for colliery pur-poses, and for this class of engine the Phoenix Foundryhas for a long time rivalled the engine shops of Man-chester and the Tyne. Here the well-known patentDawes steam compound engines, fitted with Holts ex-pansion gear, are made, and the Phoenix steam hammer,designed and erected by the company, appears tohave been extensively adopted at various Iron-makingcentres. The success of this great factory, and thegeneral approbation accorded to its productions, may,no doubt, be attributed in some degree to the qualityof the Iron, none but Lilleshall pig Iron being usedat these foundries, the comparative superiority in thestrength of which is admitted on all hands.

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