DIEC/ SOUTH WALES and MONMOUTHSHIRE TRADING ESTATES LTD the Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation
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DIEC/ SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE TRADING ESTATES LTD The Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation The South Wales and Monmouthshire Trading Estates Ltd, was incorporated in 1936. Its task was to introduce diverse industry into Wales. In the same year 165 acres of land at Treforest (between Cardiff and Pontypridd) were purchased and the establishment of the first industrial estate in Wales began. It expanded during the war and in 1945 the Board of Trade took control. The company changed its name to Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estate Ltd. Four new estates were built at Bridgend, Hirwaun, Swansea and Wrexham (co. Flint). In 1960 the firm was taken over by the Industrial Estates Management Corporation for Wales and in 1966 the name was changed to the Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation. [See also DIDC 1-184] REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/1 Certificates of Incorporation, 27 June 1926 (1 paper: mounted on card) DIEC/2 Memorandum and articles of association, 27 June 1936 (1 booklet: printed) DIEC/3-7 Annual reports of the directors and accounts for the 1938-45 years 1938-39, 1940-42, 1943-45 (5 papers: printed) DIEC/8 Certificate of change of name to Wales and 1946 Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Ltd, 6 May (1 paper) DIEC/9 Memorandum and articles of association, as amended 1946, 1947, 1951, by four special resolutions 1954 (1 booklet: printed) DIEC/10 Certificate of registration of the order of the High 1946 Court confirming the alteration to the provisions of the memorandum of association, 20 June (1 paper) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/11-25 Annual reports of the Directors and accounts for the 1945-60 years 1945-60 (4 papers and 11 booklets, all printed) DIEC/26-27 Common seal of the Wales and Monmouthshire - Industrial Estates Ltd. (2 seal dies) DIEC/29 [A history of] the Government’s Industrial Estates in 1978 Wales, 1936-75, by Geoffrey Percival, M.A., Ph.D., published by the Welsh Development Agency (1 vol. and 1 duplicate) DIEC/30/1-5 Volumes of newspaper cuttings giving details of the 1945-1967 development of the Treforest Industrial Estate and of other industrial estates in England and Wales (5 vols.) DIEC/31/1-11 Gun cotton factory [unidentified] showing various 1946 buildings including the nitrating house (20 photographs, mounted on 11 cards) DIEC/32 Hirwaun. Aerial survey of the trading estate 1947 (1 vol. of photographs) DIEC/33/1-7 Morriston, Swansea. Scrap yard and buildings 1967 belonging to the Wales Gas Board including a plan of the area (6 photographs, 1 plan) DIEC/34/1-7 Resolven, Glyn Castle. Pithead baths and canteen 1966 (7 photographs and 5 duplicates) DIEC/35/1-11 Severn Sisters. Pithead baths and canteen c. 1966 (11 photographs and 11 duplicates) DIEC/36 Bridgend. Manager’s houses, Coychurch Road, 1947 designed by Sir Percy Thomas & Son and built by Evans & Rees Ltd, Bridgend (1 vol.) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/37/1-3 Cardiff. Site for St Davids House n.d. (1 photograph, 1 booklet, 1 plan) DIEC/38/1-7 Sites and factory buildings [unidentified], in Teeside c. 1960 and Aycliffe (Co. Durham) (7 photographs) DIEC/39/1-13 Views of the exterior and interior of the Star 1962 Manufacturing Co, Morris Wilkinson Ltd, Metal Fabrications Ltd, and Northern Waterproof Ltd. Also; Letter from C. E. Harrison, General Manager of Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation, to Capt. H. Leighton Davies of Fairwood Lodge, Killkay, Swansea (12 coloured photographs, 12 duplicates and 1 paper) DIEC/40/1-7 Members of the Swedish Royal Commission on the c. 1960 Distribution of Industry on a visit to [? The Treforest Industrial Estate] (7 photographs and 4 duplicates) DIEC/41/1-3 Exhibition in Colombia [?] c. 1960 (3 photographs) DIEC/42/1-4 Exhibition held at Charring Cross Station to advertise 1937 the attractions of an area to people and industries (4 photographs) DIEC/43 Captain Leighton Davies, Chairman of the Industrial 1960-64 Estates Management Corporation for Wales and the Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Ltd. (1 photograph) DIEC/44 John Stanton Molyneux 10 June 1921 (1 photograph) DIEC/45/1-2 Cardiff Arms Park and the Royal Porthcawl Golf c. 1950 Course (golf course not dated) [photographs used in publicity material?] (2 photographs) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/46/1-2 Aerial views of industrial estate [unidentified] and n.d. possible sites for development [? Dowlais or Cyfarthfa] (2 photographs) DIEC 47/1 Upper Boat Power Station. Photograph showing the - main steam supply to the Treforest Industrial Estate at the point where it left the (older) boiler house. The larger pipe carried the steam (outwards to the Estate) while the smaller pipe returned hot water after the steam had been used on the estate. [From the earliest days of the Estate (circa 1937) steam was taken from the South Wales Power Company’s Upper Boat Power Station and distributed over some two thirds of the area of the Treforest Industrial Estate (all west of the main avenue) for heating and for use in industrial processes. The steam was carried at high pressure to four strategically placed de-superheating stations from which it was distributed to factories at lower temperatures and pressures. Some industries established at Treforest were big users of process steam and it’s availability was a material factor in their location at Treforest. When the Central Electricity Generating Board, who took over the Upper Boat Power Station on nationalisation of the electricity supply industry after the Was, gave notice that the station would cease to operate continuously, the Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation built it’s own central boiler plant to feed steam into the distribution system. This plant was commissioned in the spring of 1963. When the Central Electricity Generating Board, who took over the Upper Boat Power Station on nationalisation of the electricity supply industry after the War, gave notice that the Station would cease to operate continuously, the Welsh Industrial Estate Corporation built its own central boiler plant to feed steam into the distribution system. This plant was commissioned in the spring of 1963. The CEGB having kept the station for intermittent use for a few years, finally demolished it in the mid 1970’s and the site was acquired by the Welsh Development Agency (successors to WIEC) for extension land for the Treforest Industrial Estate] (1 photograph) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/47/2 Upper Boat Power Station, Treforest. Interior view of the n.d. older boiler house (1 photograph) DIEC/48/1-2 An unidentified house and a view of a river n.d. (2 photographs) DIEC/49/1-3 ‘Adventure, an official publication of the Welsh Industrial 1966 Estates Corporation’ (1 booklet, printed and 2 duplicates) DIEC/50 ‘Action for growth in Wales’, issued by the Welsh c. 1972 Industrial Estates Corporation (1 booklet, printed) DIEC/51/1-8 ‘Who’s who on the Industrial Estates of the Welsh c. 1970 Development Estates Corporation’, including papers advertising factories to be let (1 booklet, printed, some loose papers and 7 duplicates) DIEC/52/1-7 ‘Get up and Grow in Wales’ by the Welsh Industrial Estate c. 1970 Corporation (1 booklet, printed and 6 duplicates) DIEC/53/1-5 ‘Incentives for Industry in the areas for expansion’, issued c. 1970 by the department of Industry (1 booklet, printed and 4 duplicates) DIEC/54/1-5 ‘Offices and Service Industries, financial incentives to set 1976 up or expand in the areas for expansion’ issued by the Department of Industry (1 booklet, printed and 4 duplicates) DIEC/55/1-2 ‘Room to Expand, factories and facilities in the 1963 and development districts of Britain and Northern Ireland’. 1968 (1 booklet, printed and 1 folder of 4 booklets, printed) DIEC/56/1-2 Publicity files containing correspondence, confidential 1937-39 notes and newspaper cuttings of Andrew Reid, Publicity Agent (2 files) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/57 Ordnance Survey map of the Snowdonia National Park, n.d. scale ½ inch to 1 mile (1 plan) The photographs listed here had been catalogued by the Records section of the W.I.E.C. The order in which they had been catalogued has been preserved, and the original numbering sequence given. Some numbers are missing from the sequence. Treforest Industrial Estate DIEC/58/1-9 Views of the industrial estate 1950-64 (9 photographs, originally labelled A1-3) DIEC/59/1-3 Views of the site before development 1935-36 (3 photographs, originally labelled A4-5) DIEC/60/1-45 Views of the flood and flood damage at Treforest Industrial 1962 Estate (45 photographs originally labelled A7) DIEC/61/1-4 Redecoration, the buildings on the industrial estate (1946), 1946, 1972 with view of the main avenue (1972). (4 photographs originally labelled A8) DIEC/62/1-6 Views of the industrial estate under snow and people c. 1950 leaving work (6 photographs, originally labelled A9,10 DIEC/63/1-2 Aerial views of the industrial estate taken by a Luftwaffe 1941 reconnaissance flight. February. (2 photographs, mounted on 1 card and 2 negatives originally labelled A10a DIEC/64 Thomas Owen & Co. Ltd. (a member of the Wiggins Teape c. 1970 Group), brochure giving details of process and including photographs of machinery (1 bdle, originally labelled A11) DIEC/65/1-5 Coupe & Tidman, extension to premises, January 1961 (5 photographs, originally labelled A12) DIEC/ (cont.) REF DESCRIPTION DATE DIEC/66/1-28 Homerton Rubber Works Ltd, views of the factory under 1946 construction, March to August (28 photographs originally labelled A14) DIEC/67/1-59 Aero Zip Fasteners, views of the factory under construction 1946 (59 photographs originally labelled A15) DIEC/68/1-7 Central boiler house extension, built by Nobels of 1968 Gloucester Ltd, December (6 photographs and 1 paper originally labelled A16) DIEC/69/1-18 Copigraph Ltd., showing the interior of the factory (1938) 1938, 1946 and extension (built 1946) (18 photographs originally labelled A17) DIEC/70/1-21 Head office of the industrial estate management, views of c.