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Turner & Newall and later owners plant at Widnes, Lancashire

Widnes, in Lancashire, England, was the site of an asbestos-cement works that the sources name under Turner & Newall in 1935, Turners Asbestos Cement Company Limited in 1965 and TAC Construction Materials Ltd. in 1979.1,2,3 In December 1935, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that Turner-Newall "made large extensions to their Widnes asbestos-cement works to cope with the demand for asbestos-cement pressure pipes."3

In July 1965 the same journal wrote that "the Northern Ireland market has been supplied largely from the company's factory at Widnes in Lancashire, England."2 In June 1979, Asbestos printed Turner & Newall's report that TAC had launched an asbestos-free building board called Tachboard and "announced plans to concentrate production of asbestos-cement sheets at Widnes and Tamworth," with pipes at Erith.1

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Location

Widnes, Lancashire, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

What each document says

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Asbestos Magazine, 1979, June 1979

  • Products made: “announced plans to concentrate production of asbestos-cement sheets at Widnes and Tamworth” (TAC Construction Materials Ltd.), said by Turner & Newall Ltd., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 441

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, July 1965

  • Operated: “the Northern Ireland market has been supplied largely from the company's factory at Widnes in Lancashire” (Turners Asbestos Cement Company Limited), p. 142

Asbestos Magazine, 1935, December 1935

  • Description: “large extensions to their Widnes asbestos-cement works” (Turner & Newall), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 53

Other names

Documents call this plant “Widnes asbestos-cement works”, “the company's factory at Widnes in Lancashire”, “Widnes”.

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1979, June 1979 (June 1, 1979), p. 44.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, July 1965 (July 1, 1965), p. 14.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1935, December 1935 (December 1, 1935), p. 5.

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