Tredegar Company by Leslie M. Shore
The Tredegar Company earned its wealth from iron and coal. In the nineteenth century the \u2018Great\u2019 South Wales Tredegar iron works operated at the head of the Sirhowy Valley on land owned by the Morgan family of Tredegar House, near the city of Newport. During the Railway Age, the works supplied iron rail to the world. Isambard Kingdom Brunel selected \u2018Tredegar coal\u2019 to power his pioneering steam ship Great Western and after 1840 the company\u2019s sale of steam coal boomed. In 1873, the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company acquired the assets of the Tredegar Iron Company. Charles McLaren, 1st Lord Aberconway, and Sir Arthur Markham became the company\u2019s most influential directors. From 1898, coal mined at the company\u2019s McLaren Colliery became valued by navies worldwide. During Alfred S. Tallis\u2019s period of general management, the company not only opened Oakdale Navigation Collieries (1907-1911), Markham Colliery (1910-1913), and Wyllie Colliery (1924-1926).
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