World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 2 October 2013
Event ID 964950
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964950
Fife (2007), in his survey of military flying in Scotland in the First World War lists the works of William Beardmore & Co (a shipyard) as also being a manufactury of land and sea-planes, and he published an photograph of the Dalmuir seaplane sheds. He reports that seaplanes were merely lowered in to the Clyde and flown off, while land planes were taken by road to the nearby Dalmuir aerodrome (see NS47SE 276).
The shipyard was split up and the E side became an Asbestos Cement Works. The dividing line resulted in the removal of W shed, which is pictured by Fife (2007) as gable end to the river, thus in effect splitting the aircraft factory into two seperate building, as depicted on the 4th edition OS 25-inch map.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 2 October 2013.
