wilson wilson bell later bells finally leading manufacturing company founded partners firm founded newcastle works nearby walker works england process use 1850s boom called mining engineer ran rolling mill company leaving found major rival firm key figure company son best known england firm continued taken rival history founders company named august newcastle came rich family owned coal mines educated hamburg trained newcastle sweden france married march friend explorer time business partner rail pioneer brother partner firm kept diary recording firm napoleonic wars low fell joined counting house wilson partner firm took wilson bell married march april partner married cumberland march bell father origins iron firm origins traced john experimented produce salt opened works near newcastle sent paris study process making salt opened works walker newcastle northumberland england use process left partnership business continued walker works founded walker works carrying mixture engineering work building steam engines original wooden completely cast iron edge rails collaboration owned patent wilson bell briefly partner wealth rolling mill capable tons bar iron week installed year wilson listed white durham northumberland steam engine manufacturer iron process installed walker working inspector construction noted presence railway cutting arranged drift mines exploit find new railway carried ore year age nineteen son entered firm newcastle office father joined father firm walker second mill rolling rails added run engineer went found strongly influenced year reported works manufacturing tin iron plate large quantities iron bars making railway carriage wheels firm adjacent works operations collectively producing tons tons ash weekly journal called father making described head firm partnership shortage pig iron persuaded bell install blast mill key decision enabling firm expand years later firm installed second walker cleveland years boom cleveland iron discovered wilson bell responsible constructing bridge approaches january left partnership business time described london gazette ship insurance style firm wilson bell went career chemistry politics member parliament october boiler explosion killed seven workers according contemporary account boiler like sail blown upwards carrying sheds blowing chimneys scattering metal red hot bricks end midst works yards hill lumber yard dead aged event created sensation time account described follows iron works belonging originally consisted blast specially erected bed connection mixing year purchased mines belonging clark district cargo sent june july time works increased extra built district port north cleveland making total bells latest company owning bells year firm shield iron line tower subway tunnels firm pumping winding engines machinery smoke gases clyde lead works glasgow bells partnership dissolved retired firm known supplied beam engine near yorkshire unusual box section wrought iron beam continued running november granted patent developments machines metals shape august moved spain continued describe mutual consent partnership younger dissolved deed witnessed december owned coal mines county durham yorkshire mines salt works recorded company mines arts crafts classical style office building road designed architect commercial development according english_heritage important building aged sold majority holding bell companies rival firm comfortable merger plate maker family firm companies expanded capacity world war boom immediately followed regions expansion come fashion inefficient plant excess capacity low profits increased firms debts brought creditors boards regards bells years families rarely agreed firm run company known locally versus bell recorded year book having annual output tons coal manufacturing sir chairman managing director directors year described owners coal mines blast rolling mills finally merged completely sir chairman son directors died aged briefly chairman versus died june wages social conditions wrote report entitled employment children young persons education found paid workers shillings week scrap shillings week shillings week plate mill man shillings week boiler engineer family wife children spent shillings week provisions shillings week rent leaving shillings expenditure sport iron company walker works won championship thames heavy work stirring iron said strengthened arms shoulders chambers won return match held april collision moored boat left yards
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