DORMAN, LONG AND COMPANY, LIMITED. This British joint stock company, which in 1928 had an issued share capital of £8,o5o,000 are manufacturers of iron and steel, con structional engineering and bridge building materials and colliery and mine owners. Founded in 1876 by Mr. (now Sir) Arthur Dor man, in partnership with the late Albert de Lande Long at West Marsh Ironworks, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, the steel plant, to gether with the various auxiliary and by-product plants, now cover in the same district a very large area. In 1889 Bell Bros., Limited, ironmasters and colliery owners, became associated with Dorman, Long, and in 1903 the company acquired the ordinary share capital of the adjacent North Eastern Steel company.
In 1916, to meet the urgent needs of the World `Var, the Redcar steel works was laid down by the company's own department. Further additions were made in 1917 (Sir B. Samuelson and com pany—collieries and ironstone mines, blast furnaces, coke ovens and by-product plant) and in 1921 (the Carlton Iron company— manufacturers of ferro-manganese), so that in 1923, on the amalgamation of all these firms, Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., became the largest coal, iron and steel undertaking under one management in Great Britain.
From Middlesbrough the company have extended their organi zation to London, Melbourne, Sydney, Calcutta, South Africa and Buenos Aires, where they have established shops and associ ated-companies for fabricating steel constructional work and — where they carry large stocks of steel. They have agencies in New Zealand, Kenya Colony, Egypt, the Sudan and elsewhere.
In 1928, Dorman, Long jointly with Baldwins, Ltd., and Hos kins, Ltd., formed an Australian company named "Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd." with a capital of £5,000,000. (L. C. M.)