The electrolytic tinning process for tinplate at Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, Ebbw Vale, Wales - advert, 1953
One of a series of striking images that look like coloured photos perhaps, rather than artwork, issued in the early 1950s by the huge mostly Welsh based iron and steel concern of Richard Thomas & Baldwins. The company had been formed by merger in 1948 and was effectively nationalised in 1951. Their main works for tinplate manufacture was at Ebbw Vale and it was here in 1948 that they opened thier first continuous tinning line. This shows a major part of that plant - the electrolytic tinning baths.
I wonder if any company, not that many still exist here in the UK, would ever consider 'advertising' something so basic now as the actual process? I can recall the works of Canning's in Birmingham where in the 1960s, through open windows from the upstairs of a bus, you could see similar things going on with chromium plating!
The electrolytic tinning process for tinplate at Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, Ebbw Vale, Wales - advert, 1953
One of a series of striking images that look like coloured photos perhaps, rather than artwork, issued in the early 1950s by the huge mostly Welsh based iron and steel concern of Richard Thomas & Baldwins. The company had been formed by merger in 1948 and was effectively nationalised in 1951. Their main works for tinplate manufacture was at Ebbw Vale and it was here in 1948 that they opened thier first continuous tinning line. This shows a major part of that plant - the electrolytic tinning baths.
I wonder if any company, not that many still exist here in the UK, would ever consider 'advertising' something so basic now as the actual process? I can recall the works of Canning's in Birmingham where in the 1960s, through open windows from the upstairs of a bus, you could see similar things going on with chromium plating!