The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom

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producer. The company was jointly owned by

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and

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and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the

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area but also including a plant in

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, Manchester. The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the

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, was denationalised shortly afterwards, and renationalised and absorbed into

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in 1967. It was then subsequently privatised. Eventually the present business was acquired in a management buyout in 2005 and is now called Sheffield Forgemasters. For more information see the constituent companies' articles.

Sources

* Whitaker's Almanack (various dates)

External links

* http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/English_Steel_Corporation
A 1939 ''Flight'' advertisement for the English Steel Corporation (ESC)
* {{Authority control Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom Steel companies of the United Kingdom Former nationalised industries of the United Kingdom Defunct companies based in Sheffield Vickers