| AdminHistory | N. Greening and Sons was established in Warrington in July 1843 by Nathaniel, Timothy, Noah and John Greening. This initial partnership was dissolved in July 1851, and in December 1853 Timothy left the partnership, leaving the business to be carried on by Noah and John.
In 1883 the business, then carried on by Nathaniel and Linnaeus Greening, became a limited liability company, as N Greening and Sons Ltd., 'to carry on the business of wire manufacturers, wire workers, brush manufacturers, metal perforators and engineers'. It was based at the Britannia Works, Bewsey Road in Warrington. Another factory was opened at Hayes in Middlesex in 1924.
In the course of the 20th century, the company acquired or established a number of wholly-owned subsidiaries beginning with the Greening Wire Company Limited in 1932. Johnson and Firth Brown Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield appear to have acquired the company and its subsidiaries in the late 1970s. |
| Description | X331/1 - Corporate and Management Records
The collection consists of the records of N. Greening and Sons Limited, Wire Manufacturers, Warrington as acquired by Johnson and Firth Brown Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield.
Records of the subsidiary companies Greening Wire Company Limited, Wire Manufacturers, Warrington (X330), Greenings (Mechanisation) Limited, Engineers, Warrington (X339), and N. Greening (St. Helens) Limited, Wire Manufacturers, St, Helens (X354) are catalogued separately. Records of Johnson and Firth Brown Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield (X306) are catalogued separately. |
| CustodialHistory | These records were deposited at Sheffield Archives via the Archivist at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield by Firth Rixson PLC in 1993. They had presumably remained in the custody of Firth Rixson PLC and its predecessors prior to this time. |