History......
Well what can I say.... its flippin complicated so i'll just summarise.
Steel markers Thomas Firth & Sons merged with steel makers John Brown & Company in 1908 and officially became Firth Brown Steel in 1930. Then sometime in the 1950's the company changed its name to Firth Vickers (Stainless Steel).
Then came 1967 when the steel industry was nationalised. (It gets even more complicated)
But in the end Doncasters Group, another Sheffield based steel firm founded in 1778 by Daniel Doncaster aptly named Doncasters took over the Centispinning division of Firth Vickers (stainless Steel) in the late 1970's and the site was re branded Doncasters FVC.
In 2010 the Doncaster Group made the decision to move production from Sheffield to Teeside making the employees in the foundry at Doncaster FVC Sheffield site redundant.
That's ya lot peeps, hope you've enjoyed them.
Well what can I say.... its flippin complicated so i'll just summarise.
Steel markers Thomas Firth & Sons merged with steel makers John Brown & Company in 1908 and officially became Firth Brown Steel in 1930. Then sometime in the 1950's the company changed its name to Firth Vickers (Stainless Steel).
Then came 1967 when the steel industry was nationalised. (It gets even more complicated)
But in the end Doncasters Group, another Sheffield based steel firm founded in 1778 by Daniel Doncaster aptly named Doncasters took over the Centispinning division of Firth Vickers (stainless Steel) in the late 1970's and the site was re branded Doncasters FVC.
In 2010 the Doncaster Group made the decision to move production from Sheffield to Teeside making the employees in the foundry at Doncaster FVC Sheffield site redundant.
That's ya lot peeps, hope you've enjoyed them.
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