EAW001475 ENGLAND (1946). Factories at Rainham Ferry, Rainham, 1946
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| Title | [EAW001475] Factories at Rainham Ferry, Rainham, 1946 |
| Reference | EAW001475 |
| Date | 3-July-1946 |
| Link | |
| Place name | RAINHAM |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 551517, 180542 |
| Longitude / Latitude | 0.18331232458887, 51.502991193488 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ515805 |
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User Comment Contributions
Murex Ltd, Manufacturing Metalurgists. Produced wide range of metals including vanadium, cobalt, tungsten, niobium, molybdenum, et al. Largely self sufficient factory with its own gas plant, hydrogen plant, boreholes etc. Company originally started by a German scientist who discovered how to extract vanadium from the soot of oil burning boilers. Legend says he would collect the soot from ship's boiler cleaners and cart it around the country for secrecy, before bringing it to his isolated factory on Rainham Marshes. Vertically integrated from ore to finished articles including tungsten tool tips, thermal welding of rail lines and welding rods. Had a critically important role in WW2 |
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