Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works, Interior View showing transporter
SC 573417
Description Glasgow, 1048 Govan Road, Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard and Engine Works, Interior View showing transporter
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573417
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 part of the fabricating shop. On the right is the heavy transporter used for moving large sub-assemblies from this shop out to the building berths. It is carrying two sections of hull side. 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 H81/7/5
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