United Steel Companies

This also included coal by-product operations at Orgreave and Brookhouse, suppliers of Metallurgical Coke for Blast Furnaces.

The Kiveton Park Colliery Company was taken over in 1944 with reserves from, amongst others, the Barnsley seam being an attractive proposition.

With United Steels wanting new locomotives following the end of World War II the opportunity arose to purchase the company at a good price and also a suggestion to centralise the engineering workshops which would serve their steelworks at Templeborough (Rotherham) and Stocksbridge.

The coal by-products plants came under the ownership of a subsidiary, The United Coke and Chemical Company.

With the appointment of Stafford Beer in 1956, the United Steel Companies became one of the pioneers of management cybernetics.