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Can anyone provide me with any additional information about the "New British Iron Company". At present the only information I can find is that the company was founded in 1829 under the name "British Iron Company" to run the Abersychan Iron Works together with its appended ironstone mines and collieries in the Afan Lwyd Valley, South Wales. The prefix "New " was added to the company name in 1843 by which time it may also have had operations in the Midlands (no details at present). The company went into bankruptcy in 1851 and its works were bought by the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Company a year later for only £8,500 (estimated as being only a fifth of the works true market value at the time). The name of the company continued to be partly preserved in that of the "British & Top Pits" an umbrella name for a series of coal levels and shafts that operated until at least 1910. As yet I have found no connection between the latter mentioned pits and those of the New British Rhondda Coal Company Limited who had collieries in the Vale of Neath until at least 1934. I would particularly like to know if the name "New British Iron Company" was resurrected for any other ventures in the UK after 1851. Thanks in anticipation, Mark Smith. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%