| Description | Scope and content:
Scrapbook album compiled by Arnold Edward Steel, last Managing Director. lncluding original legal documents, from 1896, leaflet and photographs 1965-1973 of the business, local people and factory outings to Margate, Kent.
Also 35mm photographic slides of the factory and Arnold Steel's trip to Finland; and digital copies of family photographs. |
| AdminHistory | Based at Corbridge Works, The Oval, Bethnal Green, the company originally made carriage wheels and later became 'manufacturers of wooden reels and drums for all sections of the wire and cable industry'.
The business was wound up in voluntary liquidation 1973/74 when plastics took over and Arnold Edward Steel, Managing Director, retired. Arnold Edward (born 1908) was a younger son of Richard John Steel (1863-1924) and Emily Alice (nee Bailey). |
| CustodialHistory | These records were held by the Steel family prior to deposit in January 2026. |