Atlas

Location:

• Grid reference: SS75009770
• x=275000
• y=197700
• 51°39'51"N; 3°48'32"W
• Civil Parish: Neath, Glamorgan

Clinker manufacture operational: 1906-1908

Approximate total clinker production: 8,000 tonnes

Raw materials: could be Aberthaw stone?

Ownership: Atlas Portland Cement Co. Ltd

The plant was set up to make paving slabs - opened 6/1906 and wound up 11/1913. The only evidence that it made Portland cement is in its name, and that Davis listed it, with a capacity of 160 T/week. It is not to be found in directories. It is likely that it spent a couple of years trying to make its own cement, before out-sourcing it.

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Power supply

Rawmills

No information

No rotary kilns were installed.

Sources::

• Primary Sources:
  • Newspaper articles
  • Davis, Appendix
• Confirmatory Sources:
  • Nil: ignored by all standard texts