Brothers Reese Llewellyn, David Llewellyn, William Llewellyn, and John Llewellyn, of Amman Valley, Wales,[1] first organized the company in 1886.[2] The iron works, which had an anti-union leadership team, was bombed on Christmas Day 1910, most likely by the same people responsible for the L.A. Times bombing two months earlier.[3] The dynamite explosion at Redondo and Main injured a night watchman.[2] The company moved its factory to Torrance in 1912.[2] Llewellyn produced the railings that decorate the interior of the Bradbury Building.[4] The steel-rolling mill in Torrance produced the steel used in the L.A. Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square and several downtown banks.[2] Llewellyn merged with Columbia Steel Corp. of Utah in 1923, and Columbia was acquired by U.S. Steel in 1929.[2] The U.S. Steel plant in Torrance closed in 1979.[2]
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