The Manufacture of Tinplate at Redbrook, 1930-61

Redbrook Tinplate Works was the last of the 'hand-mill' works in Great Britain to close, in 1961. The works outlasted the others of its type by eight years. This was due chiefly to the fact that it manufactured the thinnest tinplate in the world at that time — the Redbrook 'Tagger'. The processes, hot-rolling, cold-rolling, pickling, annealing, tinning, dusting, sorting and packing are described. The development of the 'strip-mills' of South Wales, the advent of automation and highly sophisticated technology, with which Redbrook could not compete, brought about its demise.

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