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McKechnie Brothers,
Aldridge, Birmingham. Excellently designed pen holder/paperweight cut from a special
extrusion and polished. |
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'The McKechnie Story' is a 29
page hardback book published privately by McKechnie Brothers Ltd. in
1965. It covers many production sites including the original in St Helens
1871-1891, Widnes 1891 onwards, Birmingham 1894-1960, Aldridge (just to the
North of Birmingham) from 1953 and others including Stratford, The Worcester
Brass Company and companies overseas. |
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Promotional paperweight, now
rare, promoting their 'Tank' Brand of bearing metals based on the World War I innovation. |
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The multiplicity of faces and complexity of this hot stamping
shows what can be done given good die design and presses. |
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The Aldridge site was taken
over by Boliden of Sweden and became
Outokumpu Copper MKM Ltd. |
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It is now
Bolton Brass, part
of the Bolton Metals Group. |
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