Thomas Hill (manufacturer)
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Thomas Hill Limited was a company which repaired and sold steam road vehicles, diesel and electric road vehicles and railway locomotives. It later made its name building and rebuilding diesel locomoti
A Vanguard shunter built in 1966
Vanguard 0-4-0
United Steel Companies
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The United Steel Companies was a steelmaking, engineering, coal mining and coal by-product group based in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.
Thomas Hill (manufacturer)
…51% controlling interest and THR became a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce, Diesel Engine Division, Shrewsbury. Also in the early 1960s, it became known that United Steel Companies (USC) were to close their wheel and axle works, 'Baker and Bessemer' at Kilnhurst, and discussions regarding this matter between THR and USC revealed…
United Steel Structural (later known as Redpath Dorman Long) built Jodrell Bank Observatory in the mid-1950s