Evening Despatch: Wednesday 16th July 1902

To Face the Foreigner: Midlands and South Wales Joining Hands. Industrially and commercially, South Wales and the Midlands seem to be the natural complement to one of the other. … … The latest expression of the new policy of joining forces is Baldwin’s Limited. This company was formed to bring into combination important iron, steel, coal and other interests in South Wales and the Midlands, the following firms joining the amalgamation: E. P. and W. Baldwin Limited, Wright, Butler, and Company Limited, the Bryn Navigation Colliery Company Limited, Alfred Baldwin and Company Limited and the Blackwall Galvanized Iron Company Limited. … …The chairman said it had been necessary to select new solicitors in the place of Messrs. Milward and Co., Birmingham and the Board had appointed Messrs. Pinsent and Co. of Birmingham …


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