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existence – interest paid on capital was limited to five per cent per annum and the working partners drew only "modest" salaries of £80 per annum. This policy was intended to encourage the growth of the business, and it certainly enabled it to survive some periods of poor trading, but by the early 19th century the practice of mostly leaving accrued profits within the business led to disputes with some
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was completed in April 1795 and the second in 1796. The first had a capacity of 15 tons of metal a week, while the second could produce 20 tons. The two furnaces were in operation for 78 years before being replaced in the 1870s. Around this time – for the first ten years' of the partnership's
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and steel industries in 1948 saw the group forced to sell off its interests in these fields. However the company remained heavily involved in iron and steel founding and the production of chemicals from tar distillates, the basis of many products manufactured by its
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In 1961 the first of an order for 14 Newton Chambers double-deck car carriers was delivered to British Railways (Eastern Region). These featured a novel hydraulically operated central well capable of storing two cars below the four cars on the upper deck.
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and along with Henry Longden, they signed a lease to extract coal and ironstone from the Thorncliffe valley. The 21-year lease was signed in December 1793 and it gave them mining rights to the Thorncliffe valley from the
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saw the company move into light fabrications and oil-fired central heating equipment, however, the oil-fired boiler market collapsed in autumn 1973 with the increase in prices.
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subsidiary. The engineering part of the group designed and supplied all manner of process plant and equipment for the coal-gas, chemical and steel industries.
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at the end of 1999. In 2001 Newton, Chambers & Co. had ceased trading and was dissolved; TransTec was dissolved the following year.
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name with a bomb. It was intended to destroy the source of the Churchill tanks. A near miss ensued, but the works remained intact.
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was one of England's largest industrial companies. It was founded in 1789 by George Newton and Thomas Chambers.
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and other construction equipment. A new subsidiary company NCK-Rapier was formed, with production moving to
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for the war effort. One of the tanks used to stand at the side of the road near the factory until recently.
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as a marketing company for coal-burning grates which were made in its foundry. Changes, in particular the
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and chemical plant. Heavy section iron, cast in the foundry was used in two iconic structures:
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George Newton and Thomas Chambers were partners in the Phoenix foundry at Snow Hill,
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by Peter H.Grinyer and J-C Spender. Published by Associated Business Press (1979).
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By the end of the 19th century the company were not only mining coal and
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above the wooded valley slopes where the mining was to be carried out.
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Building housing the headquarters of the Newton, Chambers & Co.
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British Railways: Magazine: Western Region, Vol 12 No 10, page 288
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lighting, this being seen as providing a growth in work for their
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in the 1980s and became TransTec plc in 1991 after merging with
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In 1972 the group was taken over by industrial holding company
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In 1939 the Thorncliffe works came under the control of the
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The Coalmining Industry: Of Barnsley, Rotherham And Worksop
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Rotherham, Ian D.; Jones, Mel; Handley, Christine (2016).
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Before the Second World War they had started building
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Manufacturing
arms manufacturing
Ransomes & Rapier
Chapeltown, South Yorkshire
Central & Sheerwood
TransTec plc
Central & Sheerwood
Subsidiaries
NCK
Ransomes & Rapier

Sheffield
Earl Fitzwilliam
Thorncliffe
Chapeltown
Blackburn Brook
blast furnace
sleeping partners
William Murdoch
coal-gas
foundry
beehive coke ovens
ironstone
coke ovens

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