Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from W showing WNW and SSW fronts of joiners shop
SC 573414
Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works View from W showing WNW and SSW fronts of joiners shop
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573414
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 the joiners' shop in the yard, where the wooden fittings for ships were made. This shop was constructed when the yard built large passenger liners, and was over-large for the type of cargo vessels being built in the 1970s and early 80s. 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 H81/7/2
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