A silver and enamel hallmarked 25 years service at Ductile pin badge - Pendleton & Sons of Birmingham - 1966 2cm dia

Here we have a silver and enamel hallmarked 25 years service at Ductile pin badge - Pendleton & Sons of Birmingham - 1966 2cm dia

This hallmarked solid silver service badge for the company Ductile Steels

One of the many local industrial success stories in Birmingham is that of the Ductile Steels Group, which started in 1915 when Mr. Frank Hall acquired a fifty percent stake in Stanley & Hawker, a steel merchandising firm. He became sole proprietor in the early 1920s after the death of his partner. In 1924 Mr. C. H. Batten joined the firm, and became a partner in 1931.

The business became the largest stockholder of cold-rolled steel strip in the country, importing over 6,000 tons per year. In the early 1930s Frank Hall foresaw the coming of the 33 percent tariff that was to be imposed on all imported steel, and so he decided that the company should produce its own steel.

He purchased two second-hand cold rolling mills, and had a 'coffin-pot' annealing furnace built in a small factory on a levelled dirt tip in Stringes Lane. Within a short time cold rolled steel strip was in production.

Ductile Steels Limited was formed as a private company, and two further cold rolling mills, and a hot rolling mill were installed at the factory. The business prospered and became a public company in 1936 incorporating Starkey & Hawker, whose stock and machinery were moved to the Stringes Lane site.

Although the stocks of steel strip were gradually reduced, the stocking and shearing of steel sheets continued, and became an important part of the business.

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