Vulcan Iron Works

The largest of all the ironworks of Victorian England, the Cleveland Works of Bolckow Vaughan in Middlesbrough, were on Vulcan Street.

The buildings are all of stone, and the mechanical equipment could not be surpassed in efficacy at the present day, for it includes the latest and best improvements in all kinds of apparatus that can be advantageously brought to bear upon such an industry as that here engaged in.

On a site occupying 11 acres by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, he manufactured castings for motor cars.

[2] The firm started out as "Engineers, Millwrights, Iron & Brass Founders, Plumbers etc", according to the listing in Kelly's Directory.

[9] In 1861, Clunes was joined by two former railwaymen, McKenzie and Holland, and the firm moved into railway signalling equipment.

When the works there became too small, the business moved to a new Vulcan Ironworks, built at Salter Street, just off North Road, Preston, under the name Gregson and Monk.

All the machines were driven by rope from a single large wheel; two horizontal steam engines powered the entire ironworks.

[16] A Vulcan Iron Works was established at 135 Fremont Street, San Francisco in 1850 during the California gold rush.

[18] The factory was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but steel fabrication activities resumed on the site after the quake.