Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works, Interior View showing profile cutting

Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works, Interior View showing profile cutting

Date 1981

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 573402

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Govan Shipyard, 1048 Govan Road, Glasgow (City of Glasgow council area) This yard was founded by Randolph, Elder, and Co, who were well-established marine engineers in Tradeston, Glasgow. In about 1874 John Elder moved the marine engineering work to this site, which became the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. This view shows an automatically-controlled plate cutting machine, which used small-scale templates as patterns for cutting hull parts to shape from steel plate. The cutting head had an oxy-acetylene burner. This yard had a complex history, surviving the collapse of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1971 as Govan Shipbuilders. It was later taken over by Kvaerner, a Norwegian company, who sold it to British Aerospace in the late 1990s. It was still working in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H81/6/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/573402

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap