English Steel Corporation

The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom steel producer. The company was jointly owned by Cammell Laird and Vickers and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the Sheffield area but also including a plant in Openshaw, Manchester.

The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, was denationalised shortly afterwards, and renationalised and was absorbed into British Steel Corporation in 1967. It was then subsequently privatised. Eventually the present business was acquired by a management buy out in 2005 and is now called Sheffield Forgemasters.

For more information see the constituent companies articles.

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Whitaker's Almanack (various dates)

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modern manufacturing and distribution companies	Ancon Clark Arnold Laver Davey Markham Fletchers Bakery Henderson's Relish Henry Boot Kelham Island Brewery) Land Pyrometers M J Gleeson Northern Foods Outokumpu Ronseal Paints Sheffield Forgemasters SIG Tata Steel Europe Wilson Benesch
modern retail and service industry	Atkinsons Stores HSBC Irwin Mitchell PlusNet Sheffield Hallam University University of Sheffield WANdisco
traditional heavy industry (steel and engineering)	BOC^t/o British Steel Corporation^p Brown Bayley Steels Cammell^t/o Cravens English Steel Corporationⁿ Firth Brown Steelsⁿ Firth Vickers Laycocks^t/o NCK-Rapier Newton, Chambers & Company Sheffield Forgemasters
cutlers, silversmiths, surgical instruments	Arthur Price Joseph Rodgers Mappin & Webb^t/o Swann Morton Viners^t/o
tool manufacturers	Dormer (Tools)^r Footprint Tools Neepsend Spear & Jackson Stanley Tools^r
miscellaneous formerly Sheffield based companies	Batchelors^t/o Richardson Sheffield^t/o SH Wards Brewery^t/o Stones Brewery^t/o Thorntons Chocolates^r Trebor Bassett Sweets^t/o
defunct	English Steel Corporation Hadfields Limited Jessop Saville & Company Samuel Fox and Company Samuel Osborn & Company Sheffield Coal Company Simplex Cars Steel, Peech and Tozer United Steel Companies Vickers Yorkshire Engine Company
key: a= active, d= defunct, e= e-commerce, f= financial services, h= high tech, n= nationalised, p= privatised, r= relocated, t/o= taken over

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