Over Fifty Years' Aerospace Experience at Sheffield Forgemasters

Abstract

FROM 1942 to 1945 volunteers from the Home Guard guarded a steel forging company on the banks of the River Don in Sheffield. The strategic importance of the company, now known as River Don Stampings and part of the Sheffield Forgemasters group, was well known to Britain and Germany alike. It was the U.K. forging plant for the production of crankshafts for the Merlin engine used in the Spitfire fighter aircraft.