The Puddling process
Hingley Side Welders
N. Hingley & Sons test house
Other vessels with Hingley products
Other vessels with Hingley products
Hingley cables on TSS Olympic
N. Hingley & Sons Exhibition Stand
Blacksmith's Chart
The success of N. Hingley & Sons Ltd depended on the quality of the products it produced. Hingley’s prided themselves on their quality standards, and their sales literature made much of this.
Hingley’s were firmly committed to the use of wrought iron for ships’ cables and anchors. The key to high quality wrought iron was the process of rolling. To produce Hingley’s Netherton Crown Special Best Best iron, it was reheated and re-rolled up to three times. This process gave the wrought iron the ability to withstand shock loads that was second to none in the world.
Also, Hingley’s only used picked men, those whose work was of the very best, and they were paid higher wages than the rest of the industry. The level of supervision in the factory exceeded that found elsewhere, so quality levels could be maintained.
Hingley’s were one of the first businesses to practice vertical integration, a practice more commonly associated with firms in the U.S., whereby the entire production process was owned and controlled. So the iron ore, the iron, the fuel, small, medium and large chain, anchors and testing were all done by Hingley’s.
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| Interpretation written by | Louis Howe |
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