HC Deb 22 November 1948 vol 458 cc79-81W
2 and 3. Mr. Erroll

asked the Minister of Supply (1) if he will publish a list of the subsidiary companies in overseas countries in which each of the companies listed in the Third Schedule of the Iron and Steel Bill have a controlling interest or a majority shareholding in accordance with Section 154 of the Companies Act, 1948;

(2) if he will publish a list of all the subsidiary companies in the United Kingdom in which each of the companies listed in the Third Schedule of the Iron

SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES CONTROLLED BY COMPANIES LISTED IN THE THIRD SCHEDULE TO THE IRON AND STEEL BILL
(a) Registered in the United Kingdom
Third Schedule Company Controlled Subsidiary
The Briton Ferry Steel Co. Ltd. The Baglan Engineering Co. (1919) Ltd.
Brown Bayley's Steel Works Ltd. Farnley Iron Co. Ltd.
Taylor Rustless Fittings Co. Ltd.
The Stainless Steel Sink Co. Ltd.
Hoffman Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Hoffman Gloucester Ltd.
The Bynea Steel Works Ltd. Webb, Shakespeare & Williams Ltd.
Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. Redpath Brown & Co. Ltd.
*British Structural Steel Co. Ltd.
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd. Mills Scaffold Co. Ltd.
John Baker & Bessemer Ltd. Henry Bessemer & Co. Ltd.
The Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd. The Wigan Coal Corporation Ltd.
Broughton & Plas Power Coal Co. Ltd.
The Millom & Askam Hematite Iron Co. Ltd. North Lonsdale Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
Partridge Jones & John Paton Ltd. Aberbeeg Collieries Ltd.
Evans & Reid Coal Co. Ltd.
R. G. E. Harvey Ltd.
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd. Lancaster's Steam Coal Collieries Ltd.
New Sharlston Collieries Co. Ltd.
Fairwood Tinplate Co. Ltd. (in voluntary liquidation).
Round Oak Steel Works Ltd. Edgehill Ltd.
Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd. Stocksbridge Railway Co.
The Sheepbridge Co. Ltd. Light Production Co. Ltd.
London Piston Ring Co. Ltd.
Hardinge Machine Tools Ltd.
Smith & McLean Ltd Gartcosh Housing Society Ltd.
The Steel Company of Wales Ltd. Galbraith, Campbell & Co. Ltd.
Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd. Ernest N. Wright Ltd.
Newport & South Wales Tube Co. Ltd.
Victaulic Co. Ltd.
The Templeborough Rolling Mills Ltd. Stanley S. Hardy Ltd.
William Cooke & Co. Ltd.
Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd. Firth-Derihon Stampings Ltd.
Firth Brown Tools Ltd.
The United Steel Companies Ltd. Owen & Dyson Ltd.
The Sheffield Testing Works Ltd.
The St. Helen's Colliery & Brickworks Ltd.
Milner Lazenby & Co. Ltd.
L. Dyson & Co. Ltd.
William Beardmore & Co. Ltd. The British Ljungstrom Marine Turbine Co. Ltd.

and Steel Bill have a controlling interest, or a majority shareholding in accordance with Section 154 of the Companies Act, 1948.

Mr. G. R. Strauss

I will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the 74 subsidiary companies in the United Kingdom and overseas countries in which, according to my present information, companies listed in the Third Schedule to the Iron and Steel Bill have a controlling interest or majority shareholding. These are in addition to the wholly-owned subsidiaries listed in my reply to the hon. Member on 15th November.

Following is the list:

Third Schedule Company Controlled Subsidiary
The Briton Ferry Steel Co. Ltd. Glasbrook Bros. Ltd.
The Glynhir Tin Plate Co. Ltd.
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd.
The Upper Forest and Worcester Steel and Tin Plate Works Ltd.
The Briton Ferry Steel Co. Ltd. Morriston Silica Brick Co. (1929) Ltd.
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd.
The Llanelly Steel Co. (1907) Ltd.
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd. *Orconers Iron Ore Co. Ltd.
Consett Iron Co. Ltd.
The Llanelly Steel Co. (1907) Ltd. Llanelly Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd.
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd.
The Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd. The Banbury Ironstone Co. Ltd.
Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Co. Ltd.
* These Companies are understood to be operating overseas.

(b) Registered in Overseas Countries
Third Schedule Company Controlled Subsidiary
Brown Bayley's Steel Works Ltd … Brown Bayley's (South Africa) (Proprietary) Ltd.
Norma-Hoffman Bearings Corporation.
Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd … Dorman Long (Africa) Ltd.
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd. … Wire Products Pty. Ltd.
Nettlefolds Pty. Ltd.
Skruvaktiebolaget i Uddeholm.
Aug. Stenman A.B.
Houtschroevenfabriek N.V.
Mills Scaffold of Canada Ltd.
Sankey Electrical Stampings Ltd.
Hadfields Ltd. … Millspaugh (France) Ltd.
John Lysaght Ltd. … Lysaght's Works (Pty.) Ltd.
Commonwealth Rolling Mills (Pty.) Ltd.
John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
Lysaght's Newcastle Works Ltd.
Lysaght Dominion Sheet Metal Corporation Ltd.
Lysaght's Sociedad Anonima Argentina Ltda.
The Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd. … Pearson Knowles and Rylands (New Zealand) Ltd.
Whitecross Co. (Canada) Ltd.
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd. … Baldwins Montreal Ltd.
Baldwins (Australia) Proprietary Ltd.
Richard Thomas, Baldwins & Gollin Proprietary Ltd.
Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd. … Stewarts & Lloyds of South Africa Ltd.
Stewarts & Lloyds of South-West Africa (Proprietary) Ltd.
Scottish Tube Co. of South Africa Ltd.
The Templeborough Rolling Mills Ltd. … William Cooke (N.Z.) Pty. Ltd.
Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd. … Hi-Speed Tools Ltd.
The United Steel Companies Ltd. … United Steel Companies (India) Ltd.
William Jessop & Sons Ltd. … William Jessop & Sons Inc.