Brown Bayley Steels
Brown Bayley Steels was a steel-making company established in Sheffield, England in 1871, as Brown, Bayley & Dixon. They occupied a site on Leeds Road which was later occupied by the Don Valley sports stadium. The firm was founded by George Brown, Nephew of "John Brown" of the firm John Brown & Company. The firm manufactured Bessemer steel and railway tracks.
Notable among its employees was Harry Brearley, the inventor of stainless steel. Bearley left Firths after a dispute over the patents and was offered a position at Brown Bayley, where he was appointed works manager and then became a director.
The company occupied a 32-acre (130,000 m2) site.
"View of a 1950s Engineering Apprentice";
Scrap steel loaded by overhead cranes using electromagnetic grabs fed the Siemens Martin Open hearth furnaces via charging machines tipping “coffin”-like 6-foot-long (1.8 m) 18-inch-wide (460 mm) loading containers directly into the furnaces. The furnaces were heated by water gas and producer gas made on site fed to the furnaces by 36-inch (910 mm) gas mains.
The molten metal had alloys added, then sampled and after satisfactory laboratory checks of the metal composition the furnaces were tapped out into preheated bottom pouring ladles holding some 20 tons. The ladles were manoeuvred by overhead crane into the casting bays over several ceramic runner systems each feeding six preheated one-ton ingot moulds. After cooling the ingot moulds were stripped of the still hot ingots and taken to the ingot yard. In the 1950s the transport from the Open Hearth Casting Bays to the ingot yard was by steam lorry, or on the internal steam railway system. As of 2016, a fully restored original example of one of the steam lorries carrying the Brown Bayley livery can be found at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
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