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Burntisland, Shearing Machine View
SC 610149
Description Burntisland, Shearing Machine View
Date 29/10/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 610149
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Burntisland Shipyard, Burntisland, Fife This shipyard was established in 1918 by Wilfred & Amos Ayre, trading as the Burntisland Shipbuilding Co Ltd. It was very successful in the inter-war depression, and during and after World War II, but closed in 1969. This shows a beam bending and punching machine in the yard. Not unusually, it had been installed in the open air. It was built by James Bennie & Co of Glasgow, a leading firm of shipbuilding machine builders, and probably dated from the laying out of the yard in 1918. Since closure, the site of the yard has been used on an intermittent basis for the fabrication of equipment for the North Sea Oil and related industries, and has been enlarged by infilling the western basin. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/389/2D
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/610149
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