Wards at Work, 1962 : the North Lonsdale Tar Macadam Ltd
From a very fine 1962 publication issued by Thomas W Ward of Sheffield showing recent activities amongst the Ward Group of Companies. The company was founded in Sheffield in 1898 and during the 20th century it grew to acquire a multiplicity of allied companies and activities. I suspect they are best recalled for railway engineering works and shipbreaking. The Group was restructed in the late 1970s and the bulk of the company was acquired by RTZ in 1982.
This book is a tremendous record of the group and is beautifully produced although very annoyingly no printer or publisher is shown. The company commissioned the photographer Walter Nurnberg to take the vast majority of the near 200 images. Nurnberg was an acknowledged and accomplished photographer of the industrial landscape.
This is a cracking shot of a road surfacing machine laying tarmacadam - registered PWA 28, I think this urban northern scene is possibly Saltaire in West Yorkshire,
Wards at Work, 1962 : the North Lonsdale Tar Macadam Ltd
From a very fine 1962 publication issued by Thomas W Ward of Sheffield showing recent activities amongst the Ward Group of Companies. The company was founded in Sheffield in 1898 and during the 20th century it grew to acquire a multiplicity of allied companies and activities. I suspect they are best recalled for railway engineering works and shipbreaking. The Group was restructed in the late 1970s and the bulk of the company was acquired by RTZ in 1982.
This book is a tremendous record of the group and is beautifully produced although very annoyingly no printer or publisher is shown. The company commissioned the photographer Walter Nurnberg to take the vast majority of the near 200 images. Nurnberg was an acknowledged and accomplished photographer of the industrial landscape.
This is a cracking shot of a road surfacing machine laying tarmacadam - registered PWA 28, I think this urban northern scene is possibly Saltaire in West Yorkshire,