File:Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron (14784028563).jpg

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Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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overed upon enquiry when last wevisited Shropshire, was very moderate, Mr. Horton,the managing director, exhibiting more than ordinary interest in the social well-being and comfort of the artizans employed at the Phoenix Foundry. There is a good market on Saturday evening atOaken Gates, about a mile distant from these works. The collieries and Iron mines of the Lilleshall Company are the most extensive in Shropshke, and are kept in constant operation for the supply of coal and Ironstone for the nine blast furnaces of the company. The Iron mines are of the kind called argillaceous, thegeological formation being very similar to Staffordshire, coal and Ironstone being found in consecutive seamsand strata, one above another. Mr. George Jones is the mining engineer of the company. The company produces upwards of 100,000 tons of pig iron per annum, of the choicest argillaceous quality, the largest portion being made at the Lodge furnaces by the cold-blast process; the Priors Lee and Lodge furnaces con-
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THE LILLESHALL COMPANYS LODGE FURNACES IN SHROPSHIRE, AVht-rt. tlic famun> Cold Bla.M LiUe^luill Iron is made. SHROPSHIRE IRON AXD COAL DISTRICT. 105 stantly supply with best pigs the Snedshill Co. andShelton Bar Iron Co.s Works, and the makers of the highest class Staffordshire brands of finished Iron.W. Barrows & Sons of Bloomfield, B. B. H. Brand in Staffordshire, consume this best Iron more extensively than any other house in Staffordshire. There are two distinct blast furnace estabhishments ,the first at Priors Lee, four in a row, which were erected a few years since on the most modem plan, with every appliance to save labour and to continuethe output of the old Lilleshall brand. The blast engineswere made by the company, and are a beautiful pair of bright condensers with ample power, and dosatisfactory duty without accident. The hot-blast apparatus is perfect, the gas ministering without troubleto the generation of caloric, both for steam boilers and hot-air ovens, the latter being

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