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Title: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: Charles IX on Saturday 16 January 10 09:48 GMT (UK)

Can anyone please tell me what year the steel-works in Port Talbot opened? I tried googling it but I cant find anything on when it opened.....

Charles

Title: Re: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: halfasheep on Saturday 16 January 10 10:26 GMT (UK)

Definitely there during WW2 in roughly the dimensions it is now - I've seen the aerial images and maps that the Germans had of the area.

This is from the BBC - unsure how big it was back then (obviously not to the scale it currently is though):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/local_history/pages/sr_jones.shtml

Title: Re: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: halfasheep on Saturday 16 January 10 10:28 GMT (UK)

And try this:

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Port_Talbot_Steelworks

1901 it seems to have been completed

Title: Re: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: Charles IX on Sunday 17 January 10 07:15 GMT (UK)

Thank you halfasheep.

Title: Re: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: achilles500 on Saturday 06 March 10 16:11 GMT (UK)

I know I am a bit late but found this.


Port Talbot works began with the Margam plant, completed in 1923, and then the Abbey plant in 1951. The works was named after Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam, the principal sponsor of the nearby dock, which had opened in 1837. Additions to Port Talbot Works include the continuous annealing processing line in 1998, caster 3 in 2005 and heavy-end developments from 2003-2006. Today, 3600 employees produce some 4.7 million tonnes of steel a year, roll about 3 million of it themselves and send the rest to Llanwern to roll


Source.   http://www.corusgroup.com/en/company/divisions/strip_products_division/corus_strip_products_uk/about_us/

Title: Re: Port Talbot Steelworks
Post by: Charles IX on Sunday 07 March 10 20:48 GMT (UK)

Thanks for that Achilles.  :)