NEW STEELWORKS IN BRITAIN
LARGEST IN EUROPE (Rec. 830 p.m) LONDON, July 11 A new plant to produce 1,250,000 tons of sheet metal and tinplate a year and employing 8000 men. was opened at Port Talbot, Wales, yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Hugh Gaitskell). The steel works, Europe's largest, cost £60,000,000 and took four years to build. It stretches for four and a half miles along the shore of the Bristol Channel, and covers more than 600 acres. It was partly financed by Marshall Aid'dollars and will use the latest American production methods.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26477, 19 July 1951, Page 7
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