Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tin can component

Metal Box Company Limited (Manufacturer)

Scroll plate shred, i.e. the coil tinplate after the discs that will form lids have been punched out; this is scrap that was sold to detinning works where the tin was chemically stripped from the steel substrate, the reclaimed tin and scrap steel being sold. Part of a collection of samples of the production stages of manufacturing ‘Easy Lift’ pull-tab ‘full aperature’ tinplate can manufacture from Metal Box works, Neath, 1980s, manufactured from tinplate made at one of Ebbw Vale Works, Trostre Works, Llanelli or Velindre Works, Morriston.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2017.8/2

Creation/Production

Role: Manufacturer
Place: Metal Box works, Neath
Period: 1980s

Acquisition

donation, 19/1/2017

Measurements

Length (mm): 175
Width (mm): 875
Height (mm): 1

Material

Tinplate
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