Uskside Foundry in Newport, Wales was the home of Uskside Engineering, or Uskside Engineering and Rivet Co. Ltd.

Gwent Archives holds records for the company from 1889 to 1974.[1]

In 1889 Uskside Engineering & Rivet Co. Ltd. supplied the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company of the United States of America with "Stevens Improved Patent Fuel Presses", also known as Stevens underground engines.[2]

John Hughes worked at the Uskside Foundry in the 1840s before going on to found his own business and eventually the New Russia Company Ltd, and thus Donetsk.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Records of Uskside Engineering/Engineering and Rivet Co. Ltd., Newport, Mon., 1889-1974". National Archives. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "1884 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Visits to Works". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
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