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When Stothert & Pitt announced, in January 1989, the closure of
its engineering works, 580 local people lost their jobs and the
city of Bath lost its single largest manufacturer. For over 250
years the heavy engineering and metalworking business had employed
local people (over 2,000 in 1945) and supplied a wide variety of
products from bedsteads to boilers and cement mixers to cranes.
Today, when Bath is renowned for an 'industry-free' elegance,
refined and displayed for tourists, this opportunity to remind us
that heavy industry has played its part in the city's evolution
could not be more timely. In 1980 the director of the Science
Museum claimed that the work of Stothert & Pitt, as a supplier
of heavy engineering across the world, was Bath's greatest
contribution to world history. This apparently surprising remark
reveals an acknowledgement of the company's significance, locally,
nationally and internationally.
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