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TWO CLYDESDALE FIRMS ACQUIRED BY LORD PIRRIE

class of tonnage to their Scottish vards. For several years vessels launched at the Govan yard for reciprocating engines were towed to Belfast to be engined, but this prac. tice bas ceased now that the firm bas adequate engineering plant at the Clyde works.

DEVELOPMENTS ON CLYDESIDE

Telephone 1967-8

RISK OF FIRE IN AIRSHIPS.

For

The risk of fre in airships has considerably reduced the warlike operations which these aircraft have been allowed to undertake. commercial purposes some small risk Messrs. Harland and Wolff, whose of fire also exists. The proportion principal representative in the West of this risk which is due to the pre of Scotland is Mr. J. W. Kempster. sence of hydrogen is, in the case of

commercial craft especially, consider D.L., late of Belfast, frs: became actively associated with the Clyde ably smaller than is generally believ through Messrs. John Brown and Co., ed. The engines and other possible: sources of ignition are carefully with whom they have had a working

arranged at а considerable

association between the two firms

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We learn on reliable authority, says the Belfast Telegraph, that Messrs. Harland and Woolff have acquired the shipbuilding of Messrs. D. and W. Henderson and Messrs. A. and J. Inglis, Ltd., situate at Meadowside and Poathouse respec tively, on the River Clyde at Glasgow. Inquiries at the head offices of Har- land and Wolff, Ltd.; in Belfast, were

arrangement for many years. The: distance away from any point met with the reply that there was no information to give or the subject, has subsequently become closer when at which gas can possibly be dis the officials pointing out that the Lord Pirie obtained a consider charged, and the speed with which policy of the firm was entirely a mat, able controlling influence in this firm, gas when liberated rises clear of, ter for Lord Pirrie, who was not at present in the city. It is understood one of the largest of its kind in the the ship, is such that only a very world, which has produced the "Aquit serious fire in one of the engine cars definitely, however, that the deal is ania," "Lusitania, many warships and could possibly be ecrimunicated to

the gas. already an accomplished fact, liners, and is linked up with great

Although during the war British although no change has been made steel and ordnance and colliery con- in the management of the firms concerns. Brown's armour, Clydebark airships few nearly 3,000,000 miles ceined, which are still carrying on warships, Coventry guns, and Frith's the only ships which were destroyed business under their old titles as are projectiles are famous throughout the by fire were, ore, the first, "S.S." Messrs. Caird's, of Greenock, whose world. Messrs Joan Brown and Co.'s ship which ran into some telegraph works were acquired by Lord Pirrie Atlas Steel and Ironworks iz Sheffield wires and caught fire, the crew last year, and who have not yet com.

are one of the most celebrated con escaping: two, a coastal ship which landed on the water and caught fire pleted all the contracts they had cerns of the kind in the United King; for an unknown reason, and lastly,, entered into prior to the change of dom.

"S.S." ship which landed on top ownership. The Meadowside and

WHAT THE NEW DEAL INCLUDES,

of another in a thick fog. Point House concerns are the seventh

Henderson's Meadowside Yard, The petrol system is a source of and eighth respectively, which Harland and Wolff have acquired now part of the Queen's Island firm, danger which is probably at least as was started in the year 1840, and is great as that due to the gas. Large or possess controlling influence in on the Clyde, the Est reading:-John therefore one of the oldest on the quantities of petro' are stored in the Brown and Co., Ltd., Clydebank; Clyde. The present company took keel of a rigid airship, and the petrol London and Glasgow Engineering possession in 1873, and the establish- system is necessarily connected to and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Govan; ment has since gone on increasing the ergise cars. The possibility of Mackle and Thomson, Ltd., Govan; until at present the shipbuilding yard transmitting fire to the enevlope of Caird and Co., Ltd., Greenock; A. covers an area of about 25 acres. the ship would be very greatly Macmillian and Son, Ltd., Dumbar. The output ranges from the smallest reduced if paraffin or az equally safe ton; D. and W. Henderson, Ltd., yachts to the famous racing cutters fuel could be employed. The added Meadowside; A. and J. Inglis, Ltd., of his Majesty King Edward and safety which would be derived from Point house; and Burmeister and the ex-Emperor of Germany and less inflammable fuel would pro- Wain, Ltd., (Diesel engine manufac- magnificent steam yachts built for bably justify some increase in the turers). The five yards in the upper the Duke of Sutherland and Baron weight of machinery necessary to reaches which are now part of the Rothschild. Many types of mer develop the required horse-power.-- steam and Wing Commander T. R. Cave- Brown's Macmilan's, Henderson's, In- sailing. have been constructed at Browne Cave, in Engineering. glis's, and the Govan yard, form a Meadowside for owners all over group launching practically into the the world, and from the ordinary same water and capable of turning cargo carrier to first-class ocean pas- to 420 feet in length, with a max- out all classes of ships. The change senger and mail steamers, prominent imum tonnage of 8,000 tons, and its of ownership or control, as it amongst which is thes.s."Cameronia" record includes many passenger and cases, and "Columbia," and all the notable cargo steamers, oiltankers, train ferry as in some wiil Anchor liners. Amongst the sailing steamers, and yachts. It also does a as at Cairns, involved involve great alterations and ships is the five-masted "France," large repair business, and its en- extensions for which power was which, when launched, was the largest gineering activities are by no means granted last month. In the case of sailing vessel in the world. In the confined to marine work. It has the "limited" yard and Mackie and yard each of the various buildings is berthing accommodationinthe "River Thomson, it has involved a complete devoted to the work of a separate Kelvi" Amongst the steamers built rearrangement of the river front, the department, and include an iron by the firm are a number of those erection of new stops, while another founders' shed, sawmill, carpenters', belonging to Messrs. G. and J. Burns, development of the arrival of the joinera, smiths, plumbers', tinsmiths Ltd., for the Belfast service, including the "Redbreast," Vulture," and fire on the Clyde had been the and riggers' shops.

Spaniel." The Laird Line have had The Point House Yard, the yard erection of the magnificent new Diesel engine works higher up the of Messrs. A. and J. Inglis at Point the "Shamrock," "Ayalea," "Rose," river than the Govan yard. This House, are the best known of the and others of its fleet from Point firm supplies the engines for all the smaller Clyde concerns. It has been House, while the Dundalk and Newry motor ships built by Harland and in existence over half a century, and Steam Packet Co, Ltd, have had the

"Dundalk" and "Iveagh.”. Wolff, who have confined all this is capable of building steamers up.

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