AdminHistory | United Steel Companies Limited (USC) was a steelmaking, engineering, coal mining and coal by-product group, formed in March 1918 to acquire Steel Peech and Tozer Limited, Samuel Fox and Company Limited, the Workington Iron and Steel Company Limited and the Rother Vale Collieries Limited. Other companies were later added to the porfolio.
The iron and steel works on nationalisation became part of British Steel Corporation and the mining interests passed to the National Coal Board. The coal by-products plants came under the ownership of a subsidiary, The United Coke and Chemical Company. |