Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from NE showing cranes and ship on stocks

Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from NE showing cranes and ship on stocks

Date 1981

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

Catalogue Number SC 573411

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 a cargo ship for Polish owners being assembled on one of the building berths. The large rail-mounted cranes were installed to handle big sub-assemblies welded together under cover, thus reducing the time on the berth. 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 H81/6/15

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/573411

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