ABSTRACT
The output of manufactured iron in Great Britain was at one time only about twenty-five years ago well on to three million tons a year. The total output of such iron in each of the years 1902 and 1903 has been under a million tons, of which the largest quantity is still produced in South Staffordshire, and the next largest in Scotland, while the third and fourth places are taken by the Cleveland district and Lancashire, respectively. The principal finished iron products of the present time are bar iron, sheets, rounds and squares, hoops, and wire rods. Bar iron represented about 40 per cent of the total make of finished iron in 1904. The greatest British output of manufactured iron in one year was two and three-quarter million tons. This output was reached in the year 1882, which was the halcyon period of the finished iron trade.
