Originally Posted by
metaltecnicas
First of all please I am sorry for my English...
Please could you tell me how to contact a member of your community his name is Taffy. I think he can help me because few month ago he wrote:
"Frances Morton and Co. Ltd. was of course based in Garston and was a major steel fabrication company. A particular speciality was prefabricated buildings, churches etc which they exported world wide. The business had its roots in Cable St Liverpool in 1766. Unfortunately like most of the original dockside industry in Garston, it is no more."
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I am very interested to receive some information about this extraordinary steelwork company. Please could you tell me more about his history. I believe it was founded by two engineers but I couldn't find any information about them. Could you tell me what happened with the Co.? Are they still working with another brand name?
I am from Buenos Aires and here we have a very important iron building from 1910-1915 made by English architect Eustace Lauriston Counder: the Railroad Central Terminal. In those days it has cost ? 2.000.000... and Francis Morton build it, thousand of tons of iron shipped from Liverpool!
I will appreciate very much your help, thank you very much.
On this forum, do a search on "Everton Church", St, Micheal's Church", "St. Jame's Church". These are iron framed churches and amongst the earliest in the world. Also search on "Oriel Chambers", the world's first steel framed, glass curtain walled building in the world. All in Liverpool.
I'm sure Taffy will be along he is a regular.
English architect Eustace Lauriston Counder and three collaborators were given the project of constructing a new station with a French style. It was finished in 1914 and the result was one of the biggest stations in the world, as well as the biggest metallic construction of its kind.
It was the largest steel framed building in the world at the time.
The oldest passenger railway in the world is Liverpool to Manchester, and one of the oldest rail tunnels is the long Wapping Tunnel under the city, which is disused and may be reused again. If so, it will be the oldest underground rail section in the world and the oldest used rail tunnel of any type.
Frances Morton did the steelwork for the Liverpool Overhead Railway - The first elevated electric railway. demolished in 1957.
Yes, the city pioneered many advances in iron framing and railways and had strong links with Argentina: Vesty, etc.
Best of luck.
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