| AdminHistory | Formerly Wilson-Hawksworth, Ellison and Company.
Kayser Ellison and Company was registered as a public company on 24 Oct 1895.
Described in Whitakers Red Book (1914) as 'Steel, file and tool manufacturers; iron converters; steel smelters, rollers, forgers and tilters; wire rollers and drawers. Specialities: diamond cutter steel, high-speed turning tool steel, silver steel and silver steel wire, chrome steel, nickel steel, motor steels.'
The firm became Sanderson Kayser in 1960 when it merged with Sanderson Brothers and Newbould.
The trading name of 'Kayser Ellison and Company Limited' continued after 1960, it being listed as a 'subsidiary company' of Sanderson Kayser Limited in the [1971] publication: '400 Years of Iron and Steel'.
It was reported in the 1972 edition of 'The Sanderson Kayser Magazine' (vol.2, no.6) that the company was reorganising: Sanderson Brothers and Newbould Limited and Kayser Ellison and Company Limited, which had previously traded as separate entities, began operating as Sanderson Kayser Limited from 1 Apr 1972. The integration of the sales and trading functions was the final of the amalgamation under one name. Within the new tranding company of Sanderson Kayser Limited, two divisions were formed: 1. the Steel Division and 2. the Finished Products Division. |