When Stothert & Pitt announced, in January 1989, the closure of its engineering works, 580 local people lost their jobs and the city of Bath lost its single largest manufacturer. For over 250 years the heavy engineering and metalworking business had employed local people (over 2,000 in 1945) and supplied a wide variety of products from bedsteads to boilers and cement mixers to cranes. Today, when Bath is renowned for an 'industry-free' elegance, refined and displayed for tourists, this opportunity to remind us that heavy industry has played its part in the city's evolution could not be more timely. In 1980 the director of the Science Museum claimed that the work of Stothert & Pitt, as a supplier of heavy engineering across the world, was Bath's greatest contribution to world history. This apparently surprising remark reveals an acknowledgement of the company's significance, locally, nationally and internationally.
| ISBN: | 9780752427942 |
| Publication date: | 4th August 2003 |
| Author: | Ken Andrews, Stuart Burroughs |
| Publisher: | The History Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 127 pages |
| Genres: |
Industrialisation and industrial history Iron, steel and other metal industries History of specific companies / corporate history Engineering: general History of engineering and technology Local history |
When Stothert & Pitt announced, in January 1989, the closure of its engineering works, 580 local people lost their jobs and the city of Bath lost its single largest manufacturer. For over 250 years the heavy engineering and metalworking business had employed local people (over 2,000 in 1945) and supplied a wide variety of products from bedsteads to boilers and cement mixers to cranes. Today, when Bath is renowned for an 'industry-free' elegance, refined and displayed for tourists, this opportunity to remind us that heavy industry has played its part in the city's evolution could not be more timely. In 1980 the director of the Science Museum claimed that the work of Stothert & Pitt, as a supplier of heavy engineering across the world, was Bath's greatest contribution to world history. This apparently surprising remark reveals an acknowledgement of the company's significance, locally, nationally and internationally.
Stothert & Pitt features in the following genres: Industrialisation and industrial history, Iron, steel and other metal industries, History of specific companies / corporate history, Engineering: general, History of engineering and technology, Local history
Stothert & Pitt is available in Paperback
Stothert & Pitt was written by Ken Andrews, Stuart Burroughs and published by The History Press
Stothert & Pitt has 127 pages
£13.49