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of Edinburgh and London

of Trafford Park, Manchester

1802 Company founded asRedpath and Brown, wholesale ironmongers, nail makers and iron merchants, byJohn Redpath andJohn Brown.

1820 the style of the firm was altered toRedpath, Brown and Company, when Mr.James Marshall was made a partner.

1854A. Wylie ceased to be a Partner in the Firm of REDPATH, BROWN, & CO., Iron Merchants andIronmongers in Edinburgh and Leith^[1]

1860 Mr Marshall's nephew,John Cowan, joined the firm as an apprentice.

1865Thomas Scott was a partner in the firm^[2]

1878 Lawrence M'Garth retired from Redpath, Brown and Co, wholesale ironmongers and iron merchants, of Albert Street, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, leaving John Cowan as the sole subscriber; he continued the business^[3]

1880 Opened a department for iron constructional work such as beams and roof trusses.

1880John Cowan was the sole partner.

1885 Introduced mild steel rolled joists.

1886 made some steel joist compound girders, the first in Scotland.

1896 Public company. The company was registered on 15 October, to acquire the business of iron and steel merchants of the firm of the same name.^[4]

1896 Acquired site for the St. Andrew Steel Works in Edinburgh.

1900 Catalogue of steel sectional material.^[5]

Early 1920s AcquiredDarlington Rolling Mills Co

1923Bolckow, Vaughan and Co acquired an "important interest" inRedpath, Brown and Co, makers of structural steel, with works in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow^[6], in order to secure an outlet for finished steel^[7].

1929Dorman, Long and Co acquiredBolckow, Vaughan and Co, to create a major force in structural engineering

1937 Steel structural engineers and merchants.^[8]

1954Dorman Long and Company became a holding company on 2 October. The Holding and Realization Agency sold all of the shares in the company to the public^[9].

1956 The AGM ofDorman, Long and Co was told about the performance of the main subsidiary companies^[10] including Redpath Brown constructional works at Edinburgh and Glasgow and East Greenwich

1961 Iron and steel merchants and constructional engineers. 2,916 employees.^[11]

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