The Barclay Curle Crane is a disused Titan or giant cantilever crane at the Barclay Curle shipyard at Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland. It was built by Sir...
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Seawind Barclay Curle is a British shipbuilding company. The company was founded by Robert Barclay at Stobcross in Glasgow, Scotland during 1818. In 1862...
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Titan Clydebank (redirect from Titan Crane)
Stobcross (Finnieston Crane), Scotstoun (Barclay Curle Crane) and Greenock (James Watt Dock Crane). Fewer than sixty giant cantilever cranes were built worldwide...
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The Finnieston Crane or Stobcross Crane is a disused giant cantilever crane in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is no longer operational, but is retained...
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The James Watt Dock Crane is a giant cantilever crane situated at Greenock on the River Clyde. It was built in 1917 by Sir William Arrol & Co. It was...
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Fairfield Titan (redirect from Fairfield Titan crane)
cantilever crane at BAE Systems' Govan shipyard, and the largest such crane on the River Clyde until it was demolished in 2007. The crane was built by...
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The Beardmore Crane was a giant cantilever crane at the William Beardmore and Company yard. The Beardmore Crane had two opposite cantilevered jibs, both...
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MV Dara was a British passenger ship, built in 1948 by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland. She travelled mostly between the Persian Gulf and...
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Sir William Arrol & Co. (section Cranes)
1984 Titan Crane, James Watt Dock Crane, completed in 1917 Titan Crane, Barclay Curle, completed in 1920 Blocksetter Travelling Titan (South African Harbours...
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Crane, Fairfield, completed in 1911 Titan Crane, James Watt Dock Crane, completed in 1917 Titan Crane, Barclay Curle, completed in 1920 Garden Island, Sydney...
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the early part of the twentieth century, acquiring the Glasgow-based Barclay Curle in 1912. In 1966, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson merged with Smiths...
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grate area of 124 square feet (12 m2) that heated two single-ended Barclay, Curle & Co. boilers with a combined heating surface of 4,390 square feet (408 m2)...
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new electrical plant, £18,000 to extend the dock and £19,000 for a new crane capable of lifting 150 tons, as well as £20,000 on additional machinery...
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Systems' Steelwork Centre of Excellence. The 220-ton capacity Fairfield Titan crane, built in 1911, was demolished in 2007 to make way for construction of modules...
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Alexander Stephen & Sons W Denny & Bros A. & J. Inglis Simons & Lobnitz Barclay Curle JI Thornycroft & Co Vosper Thornycroft Vosper Thornycroft VT Group Vosper...
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Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Fairfield of Govan, Inglis of Pointhouse, Barclay Curle of Whiteinch, Connell and Yarrow of Scotstoun. Almost as famous were...
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Wolff's famous twin gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, built in 1974 and 1969 respectively. In late 2007, the 'Goliath' gantry crane was re-commissioned, having...
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Ltd, and a new 'art deco' headquarters designed by architect C. Howard Crane was built at its Brooklands factory in Surrey although the former Supermarine...
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facilities and the installation of four 80 ton travelling rope luffing cranes in 1975 by Clarke Chapman, servicing the yard's three slipways, in order...
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two quays and a large steel fabrication shed. The facility also has eight cranes lifting up to 100 tonnes, a steel workshop, joinery workshop and engineering...
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founded the Elswick works at Newcastle, to produce hydraulic machinery, cranes and bridges, soon to be followed by artillery, notably the Armstrong breech-loading...
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Clitheroe John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer Adam Curle (1916–2006), British academic and Quaker peace activist Goldsworthy Lowes...
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broadcast of "The Shining Hour" was delayed by a week due to a faulty camera crane which could not be repaired in time, and the planned transmission of "Trial...
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as the largest crane in the world. It was employed in lifting the engines and boilers aboard ships in the fitting-out basin. The crane was a Category...
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Alexander Stephen & Sons W Denny & Bros A. & J. Inglis Simons & Lobnitz Barclay Curle JI Thornycroft & Co Vosper Thornycroft Vosper Thornycroft VT Group Vosper...
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by Scotland's finance and economy secretary Derek Mackay, then lifted by crane into the water on 29 January. Sea trials and delivery were completed in...
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closed in 1980 after 119 years of shipbuilding. The site was cleared of cranes although some evidence of the building berths remained visible until about...
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(born 1899) 27 June Sir Alfred Ayer, philosopher (born 1910) Samuel Newby Curle, mathematician (born 1930) 1 July Joan Cooper, actress and wife of Arthur...
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Longden Steamship For T. A. Tambayah. 6 February United Kingdom Messrs. Barclay, Curle & Co. Whiteinch Pelican Steamship For Messrs. Slater, White & Co. 7...
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Hamilton and Company's Glen Yard, so acquiring an Arrol 'Goliath' gantry crane and the David Rowan engine-building subsidiary was merged with Fairfield's...
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