BALDWIN'S, LIMITED. This British joint-stock com pany amalgamated, in 1902, a number of old-established under takings, including colliery owners, steel manufacturers, and makers of tinned, galvanized, leadcoated and black sheets; it has since enlarged its operations by further amalgamations.
The company has many famous associations. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, was a director until he resigned to join the Government in 1917; it was near the Pontypool works of the company that Major Capel Hanbury first produced iron sheets by rolling instead of hammering; it was at the company's Landore steel works that Dr. Siemons carried on the greater part of the research that ultimately led to the inven tion of the open-hearth method of producing steel; whilst at the Worcestershire village, Cookley, the first tinplate coated through rolls was made in the '6os. The Cookley tinpot was almost as great an advance in tinning over the old method as Hanbury's in vention of rolling in the production of iron sheets. (L. C. M.)