In reply to Deuce4:
A mate of mine served his engineering apprenticeship at Lucas Aerospace in Burnley in the mid to late 60's. He worked in the methods engineering dept whos' manager was Jack Umpleby, He of Umpleby's Corner at Widdop.
Jack got Mick my mate to make some press tools to manufacture pegs out of high tensile steel aerospace material (not sure what grade) that they nicked from the scrap bins. They called them 'Hi Tens' i think at the time and were mainly blade pegs. Not sure what became of them, but apparently you needed a quite powerful press to produce them even when hot formed.
We also started making our own aluminium wedges around the same time. Never thought to go into producing them in mass quantaties at the time, even though Fishers in Keswick said they'd buy everyone we could make. Looking back we should've been a bit more enterprising at the time.