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    Sir William Arrol (13 February 1839 – 20 February 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Unionist Party politician. The son...
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    Sir William Arrol & Co. was a Scottish civil engineering and construction business founded by William Arrol and based in Glasgow. It built some of the...
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    The Arrol Gantry was a large steel structure built by Sir William Arrol & Co. at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was built...
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  • Arrol may refer to: Arrol Corelli (born 1985), Indian composer Ian MacLachlan Arrol (1924–2000), English politician William Arrol (1839–1913), Scottish...
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    Arrol-Johnston (later known as Arrol-Aster) was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1895 to 1931 and produced the first...
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    Isles. Designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and built by the firm of Sir William Arrol. It is known locally as Barrow Bridge. Part of a development to improve...
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    from Great Britain. In the British Empire, the engineering firm Sir William Arrol & Co. was the principal manufacturer of giant cantilever cranes; the...
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    Fox & Partners carried out the design work and a joint venture of Sir William Arrol & Co., Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company and Dorman Long constructed...
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    of £68,026 6s 8d (equivalent to £9,090,000 in 2023 values), by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow between 1910 and 1911 to replace the 'Hugh Bell' and...
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  • current polymer note, first issued in 2015, bears an image of engineer William Arrol on the obverse and an image of the Forth Bridge on the reverse. It was...
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    was awarded to Associated Bridge Builders Ltd (a joint venture of Sir William Arrol & Co., Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company and Dorman Long) in 1963...
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  • Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Melville Dundas Mowlem Pauling & Co. Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls...
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    232 (December 1887); Mr William Webster was responsible for the southern approach at £38,383 (July 1888); Sir William Arrol & Co. had the contract for...
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  • Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Melville Dundas Mowlem Pauling & Co. Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls...
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    4 kPa)." the contractor did his bit- Arrols were also simultaneously involved in building Tower Bridge; William Arrol spent Monday and Tuesday at the Forth...
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    Falkiner and Joseph Philips, civil engineers and contractor, and Sir William Arrol & Co. Arrol was a self-made man, who had been apprenticed to a blacksmith...
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    Titanic and Britannic, between 1909 and 1914. It commissioned Sir William Arrol & Co. to construct a massive twin slipway and gantry structure for the...
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    Following Firms". William Beardmore and Company Ltd., Dalmuir. Sir William Arrol/Engineering Ltd. 1909. pp. 150–158. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)...
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    fresh start. In 1887, Robert took his two eldest sons, Robert junior and William, out of school to help him, with Malcolm and Alfred following soon after...
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    Reverse Additional Information Polymer Series (2015 onwards) £5 Sir William Arrol Vignette of the Forth Bridge In circulation £10 Robert Burns Vignette...
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    more industrial areas of town, Johnstone North railway station. Sir William Arrol – Worked as a boy at the Johnstone mills before becoming the architect...
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  • Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Melville Dundas Mowlem Pauling & Co. Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls...
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    engineering at University College London before joining the firm of William Arrol in Glasgow where he started in the drawing office.[citation needed]...
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    and Anderson and fabricated by the famous bridge building firm of Sir William Arrol & Co. at their Dalmarnock Ironworks in Glasgow (they also built the...
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    Navigation Trust. The contract to build the crane did not go to Sir William Arrol & Co., who had significant experience in dock cranes, and built a number...
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    Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Melville Dundas Mowlem Pauling & Co. Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls...
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    constructed by John Howard, in conjunction with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol & Co. Swale railway station is at the southern end of the bridge. When...
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  • British company included the renowned Scottish structural engineer Sir William Arrol and Andrew Stewart, of the Lanarkshire-based steel tube makers A & J...
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    million £5 notes, printed in polymer. It features a portrait of Sir William Arrol and an image of the Forth Bridge.  India 2015 The Reserve Bank of India...
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  • Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Melville Dundas Mowlem Pauling & Co. Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls...
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