The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927

bedstead began Bilston Birmingham and District Birmingham Industries Black Country blast-furnaces branch brassfoundry British buttons Census of England centre century chain chief Children's Employment Commission coal competition concerned Coventry Cuttings on Birmingham cycle Darlaston decline demand depression domestic workers Dudley edge-tool electrical employed Employment Commission 1862 engaged engineering England and Wales existed finished firms foreign foundries furnaces growth gun trade hardware highly composite hollow-ware Ibid important increased Inspectors of Factories iron trade jewellery labour lock machine machinery mainly makers manu manufacture methods Midland mines motor nail neighbourhood Newspaper Cuttings Oldbury older operations output period pig-iron plant pre-war production prosperity puddling furnaces raw materials Redditch Report saddlery and harness screw Smethwick South Staffordshire steel Stourbridge supply tendency Timmins tinplate Tipton tons tubes Walsall wares Warwickshire Wednesbury West Bromwich West Midlands Willenhall wire Wolverhampton Worcestershire workers Workshops wrought-iron