Description and History of Site:-
A small-ish factory on a roughly triangular site bounded by Fife Street, Merton Lane and Barrow Road. Stringer & Company (Sheffield) Ltd. was established by John Charles Stringer in 1876. They had premises at 3 Fowler Street, later renamed Fife Street, Wincobank, Sheffield. They built a range of cars between 1913 and c1928 when they went out of business, unable to compete with the likes of Austin and Morris. The cars produced before World War 1 were known as ‘Winco’ and those after the war as both ‘Stringer-Winco’ and later 'Stringer-Smith'. It is not known how many cars were made, and none is known to exist. Wincro Metal Industries Ltd currently (2017) occupy the site, with the earlier buildings little altered.

Further Reading and References:-
Myers, S. Cars from Sheffield: the rise and fall of the Sheffield motor industry 1900 - 1930. Sheffield City Libraries, 1986.

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Address :- 3 Fife Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S9 1NJ
Grid Ref :- SK 38765 91978
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.423180 , Long -1.418130
Local Authority :- Sheffield City Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Operational site, in use for original purpose
Site Dates :- c.1875 -
Record Date :- 30 December 2016

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