British Wedge Wire Company

Dates: Founded in 1921, in operation until at least 1958.

Location: Richmond Works, Academy Street, Warrington.

Specialised in: wedge wire and its various applications such as chain-link fencing (“tennis courts a speciality”) and particularly “Wedco”conveyor belts.

Founded in 1921 the British Wedge Wire Company specialised in the production of products using “wedge wire” – a type of wire which is triangular in cross-section and which is mostly used in the manufacture of screens and conveyor belts.

British Wedge Wire was later acquired by Greenings.

Trade catalogue for the British Wedge Wire Company, 1958

Trade catalogue for the British Wedge Wire Company, 1958

This article was written for the Wire Works Project 2020-2021, a National Lottery Heritage funded project aiming to highlight and celebrate the legacy left by the wire industry, which dominated Warrington’s employment structure for over 170 years, putting the town at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.