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| Metsec Plc |
| Broadwell Road |
| Oldbury |
| West Midlands |
| B69 4HF |
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| T: +44 (0) 121 601 6000 |
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| 1750 - 1930: A feel for the metal |
"Sometimes in the sixties, when we were making the car parts they didn't quite fit the checking jig and they had to be set by twisting them slightly. If you twisted too far, you ruined the part because you put a crease in the metal. Those of us who worked there got a feel for this. You had to have a feel for the metal."
John Jones |
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| 1919 - 30 |
| In 1919 a consortium of local tube manufacturers and users, including Accles & Pollock Ltd, form Tube Investments Ltd (TI) based in Oldbury. In 1930 Tube Investments Ltd bought The Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Co Ltd Broadwell Road site in Oldbury where Metsec is based today. |
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| 1901 |
| The Oldbury Carriage Works prospers and is sold to the Metropolitan Carriage Co in 1903 to become The Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Ltd employing some 2,000 men in the production of around 9,000 railway carriages each year. |
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| A new cold-drawn tube company, Accles and Pollock Ltd, moves to Churchbridge, Oldbury and soon establishes the Paddock Works in Rounds Green. |
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| 1854 |
| Since 1750 Oldbury in the West Midlands has become a major centre for the processing and fabrication of iron and steel components. This"feel for the metal" that leads Johnson & Kinder to relocate their railway carriage company from Bromsgrove to Oldbury. They build the Oldbury Carriage Works in Broadwell, in fields next to a canal arm and the new 'Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley railway line. |
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