Talk:Brynmawr rubber factory

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I worked for Dunlop Semtex in the 1970s. Apropos the boiler house I heard a story that the Chief Engineer made a trip to Sweden where, in a boiler house, he spotted a spiral staircase without any structural support, it being self supporting. There is one in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe New Mexico that is believed to be a miracle enacted by St Joseph. Nevertheless the Chief charged his engineers to design one on the Swedish model for the Brynmawr facility. It was challenging, very time-consuming, and expensive but they succeeded. Some time later one of these engineers made a trip to Sweden to visit the same facility so admired by his Chief Engineer to find that the spiral staircase in that boiler room had a supporting structure. Is the Brynmawr staircase still standing?

Ham II (talk) 11:14, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

rv undiscussed rename

Although this is a rubber factory in Brynmawr, and has been named such since in a variety of architectural record, its name when operating as a factory was always (COMMONNAME) based on Dunlop, not Brynmawr. This should revert to the Dunlop Semtex rubber factory name. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Andy Dingley: well the article lead called it the Brynmawr rubber factory, and the majority of reliable sources call it that - it is the situation today which is important, not what it was called at the time, per WP:NAMECHANGES. The previous name was a weird hybrid of the two, anyway - with "Brynmawr" appended on the end of the Dunlop Semtex name despite there being no other factories of that name. It also appears that the name was a result of an undiscussed move by yourself, so in fact this is just reverting to the previous and original title. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 13:53, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are plenty of Dunlop factories though, just that this was the only one for the Semtex products.

We shouldn't base any naming decisions on what the article says, but what on independent sources use. Such as Coflein or any of the coverage of it from the mid '50s-early '80s when it was operating successfully as the floor tile factory. Before this it was Brynmawr Rubber (never 'Brynmawr rubber'). The reversion to 'Brynmawr rubber' (i.e. the nameless rubber factory in Brynmawr) arose fairly late in architectural history, mostly after it had been demolished. Even when the campaigning was on to save it as a building, it was always referred to as 'Dunlop' ('Semtex' was never mentioned, because of the negative connotations). Andy Dingley (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]