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Mark Firth

Mark Firth – Making a Success of Armaments

Yorkshire has long been a county linked with iron, steel and metallurgy in the public consciousness, starting with the boom period in the middle of the 19th Century. The quality of the products that came out...


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Some Weighty Talk With Metals!

If you ask somebody “What is a kilogram?” you might get a series of different answers. Some may be literal and say “One thousand grams”, while others, dependent on their age, might say “About 2.2...


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Hot Metal – How Does It Change?

We know that lots of things undergo changes when they’re heated and metals are no exception. There are a number of common items that actually rely on this very fact, such as thermometers – the...


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A Look At The Vickers Family

There are a number of famous names in the steel industry around Yorkshire, but what’s interesting is the number of different disciplines that they cover. There are famous scientists, metallurgists, cutlers, structural engineers and even...


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Rebuilding a Car That Never Existed

There’s something exceptionally beautiful about how cars work, it’s one of the reasons that there are so many enthusiasts - including us! At its most simple, the car is a tool that allows us to...


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A Closer Look at the Bandsaw

West Yorkshire Steel are happy to offer a number of different steel processing services – the options that we have mean that we can deliver a range of different products to our customers just as...


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