Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
I've read that the Swedish steel was used to make Sheffield blades. Here is an interesting page I just googled and here is another with even more data on the Swedish steel.
You don't think getting the foundry down the road to supply Sheffield steel would have been cheaper? It certainly wasn't any poorer quality steel. After all that is where crucible steel and the Bessemer process were invented - Sheffield. A company like W&B importing Swedish steel to make razors is like Microsoft importing software. They probably did import a lot of Swedish iron ore though.