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	William Beardmore and Company at AllExperts
		William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding company based in Glasgow and the surrounding areas.
		Initially the company operated a steelworks and gun arsenal at Parkhead, in east end of Glasgow.
		This was the most profitable part of the company and was the last part to be disposed off after the death of Lord Invernairn in 1936.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_beardmore_and_company.htm (691 words)

	India Of Inchinnan
		The site was first used industrially by William Beardmore and Company, who obtained a contract from the Admiralty to build airships in World War I.
		William Beardmore therefore obtained land at Inchinnan and built the Inchinnan Airship Constructional Station.
		William Beardmore successfully built several airships, Airship No. R24, R27, R34 and the R36.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/India_of_Inchinnan (498 words)

	Photograph of Gun leaving Beardmore munitions factory in Parkhead, Glasgow, 1915 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The company specialised in the manufacture of armour plate and boiler plate for the thriving railway and ship-building industries and was moderately successful.
		Beardmore became a major armaments supplier in the years leading up the first world war and was involved in the development and construction of everything from battleships to submarines, tanks and aircraft.
		Beardmores also developed a building construction side to its businesses and constructed many houses for shipbuilding workers at Dalmuir, a Clydeside yard which boasted the largest fitting-out basin in the world.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc124.htm (276 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - Collections - Summary Catalogue - Records of William Beardmore & Co Ltd, ...
		William Beardmore (1823-1877) was the son of Joseph Beardmore, iron master, the first superintendent of the Deptford works of the General Steam Navigation Co, London, England.
		William Beardmore, junior, (1856-1936) was born in Greenwich, London, the eldest son, of William Beardmore, senior, and was educated at Glasgow High School and Ayr Academy.
		William was keen to develop the business and, as a first step, persuaded his uncle to invest in open-hearth steel plant and a steel foundry.
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /collects/catalog/ugd/051-100/ugd100-1.html (1611 words)

	Hirst Family Web site
		Her eventual construction cost was £1,220,908 netting her builder, William Beardmore and Company a gross profit of £138,999 in 1920.
		Apart from submarines, liners and warships the company were also responsible for manufacturing heavy armaments, such as tanks and field guns, steam locomotives, aircraft and airships, the largest of which, the R36 was almost 700 feet long and could carry more than 50 people.
		The legacy of the Dalmuir Yard of William Beardmore is still felt 70 years after the company closed the shipyard.
	uk.msnusers.com /HirstFamilyWebsite/genesis.msnw (1112 words)

	Red Clydeside: 15-inch gun leaving the Beardmore munitions factory in Parkhead [photograph], 1915
		The company specialised in the manufacture of armour plate and boiler plate for the thriving railway and ship-building industries, and was moderately successful.
		Beardmore became a major armaments supplier in the years leading up the first world war and was involved in the development and construction of everything from battleships to submarines, tanks and aircraft.
		Beardmore's also developed a construction side to its businesses and built many houses for shipbuilding workers at Dalmuir, a Clydeside yard which boasted the largest fitting-out basin in the world.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /redclyde/redcly124.htm (271 words)

	Genesis
		Her eventual construction cost was £1,220,908 netting her builder, William Beardmore and Company a gross profit of £138,999 in 1920.
		Apart from submarines, liners and warships the company were also responsible for manufacturing heavy armaments, such as tanks and field guns, steam locomotives, aircraft and airships, the largest of which, the R36 was almost 700 feet long and could carry more than 50 people.
		The legacy of the Dalmuir Yard of William Beardmore is still felt 70 years after the company closed the shipyard.
	www.lancastria.org.uk /Origins/Genesis/genesis.html (1148 words)

	William Beardmore at AllExperts
		William Beardmore was a Scottish industrialist born on 16 October 1856.
		William became a partner in 1880 and on his uncle's retirement six years later, he became the sole proprietor of the business and formed it into the limited company of William Beardmore and Company in 1902.
		William Beardmore died at home of heart failure on 9 April 1936, aged 79.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_beardmore.htm (407 words)

	Beard(s)more One-Name Study
		William Beardmore, later Baron Invernairn, was born at Greenwich, Kent, on 16 Oct 1856, first son of William Beardmore of Parkhead, Glasgow, and Sophie Louisa Holfman (Halpman in the IGI), who were not themselves married until 8 Jul 1861 at Duddington, Midlothian.
		William senior died in Brighton on 11 Oct 1877, whereupon William junior became a partner in the growing engineering business, which specialised in the manufacture of armour plate and boiler plate and which had been built up by his father and his uncle, Isaac, who had become a partner in 1871.
		However, in 1902 William ran out of credit and was forced to form the business into a limited liability company, William Beardmore and Co Ltd, by exchanging 60% of capital with Vickers, Son and Maxim for an equivalent stake in that company and a seat on the Board, Vickers thereafter providing finance.
	www.goring1941.freeserve.co.uk /beard01.html (8154 words)

	Sopwith Aviation Company
		The company was founded in Kingston-upon-Thames by Thomas Octave Murdoch (Tommy, later Sir Thomas) Sopwith, a well-to-do gentleman sportsman interested in aviation, yachting and motor-racing, in June of 1912.
		The Sopwith company was wound up in 1920 after failing to achieve sufficient success with civilian products (which had prompted the purchase of ABC Motors in 1919) to compensate for the drop in military aircraft orders after the end of the War and a potential large demand from the government for Excess War Profits Duty.
		Towards the end of the war the company produced the Cuckoo torpedo-bomber and the Salamander armoured ground-attack development of the Snipe, but these types were too late to see action.
	www.pilotfriend.com /acft_manu/Sopwith.htm (1016 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Now used by a computer software company, it was set up during the first world war with a much more dramatic purpose; for the factory at Inchinnan was one of the centres of Britain's airship industry.
		William Beardmore and Company were a giant engineering concern with forges, factories, and yards in Glasgow and the surrounding district.
		Beardmores were seemingly well established at Inchinnan by that time, having built a settlement of 52 houses for airship workers beside the factory.
	www.happyhaggis.co.uk /haggis_files/inchinnan_airship.htm (694 words)

	British motorcycle manufacturers B
		Beardmore pulled out in 1924 and the company closed, so Baker went on to start his own company in 1926.
		In the 1930s, the company boasted that one in four motorcycles on the roads in the UK was a BSA.
		During the 1960s, the company was slow to innovate, and made several failures, including the Dandy and Beagle commuter bikes and the Ariel-3 tricycle.
	www.ianchadwick.com /motorcycles/britbikes/brit_b.html (1759 words)

	Contract agreement between Ministry of Munitions and Beardmores for the construction of shells, 29 Mar 1916
		William' Beardmore's post-war hopes that world-wide demand for aeroplane's would be at the forefront of a new manufacturing boom failed to materialise and after 1920 nearly every department and subsidiary of Beardmore & Co began to lose money.
		The firm began to borrow more and cut back on costs and by 1926 the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and Sir William Beardmore was ousted from executive control by a Bank of England-guided committee of investigation and reconstruction.
		William Beardmore & Co continued in business on a reduced scale before finally ceasing trading in 1975.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc104.htm (249 words)

	[No title]
		In 1889 the company changed its name to Nelsons (New) River Plate Meat Company and, as prospects for development seemed favourable, plans were formulated to acquire a fleet of steamers in order that suitable tonnage would always be available to ship meat and meat products to Britain.
		She was bought by James Nelson and Sons in 1889 and, fitted with somewhat primitive refrigerating plant operating on the cold air system, became one of the pioneer vessels in the refrigerated meat trade.
		In 1911 the rapidly-expanding Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which was also engaged in the River Plate meat trade, began to show a very keen interest in the affairs of the Nelson Line and rumours circulated to the effect that a take-over by the R.M.S.P. was imminent.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /nelson.html (4534 words)

	HMS Shropshire (73) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		She is the only ship to ever be named after Shropshire, England.
		Shropshire was laid down at the shipyard of William Beardmore and Company, Limited, at Dalmuir in Scotland on 24 February 1926.
		She was launched on 5 July 1928 by the Countess of Powis, Baroness D'Arcy de Knayth and completed on 12 September 1929.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Shropshire_(83) (659 words)

	71 Wn.2d 273, BEARDMORE HEAVY HAULING & CRANE SERVICE, Respondent and Cross-appellant, v. S. G. MORIN et al., Appellants
		Beardmore brought an action to recover for damages caused it by the delay, but the trial court found it had suffered no damages by reason of the starting delay other than the $550.25 unloading cost.
		As to the judgment of $550.25 awarded plaintiff in damages caused by defendant's delay in preparing the site and footings, we are of the opinion that the findings of fact were amply supported by the evidence and in turn support the conclusions of law and that the whole record, therefore, sustains the judgment.
		Defendant United Pacific Insurance Company had, in accordance with RCW 39.08, become surety for S. Morin & Son in the performance of its contract to build the school and particularly in compliance with RCW 39.08.010 requiring a performance bond on all public contracts.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/071wn2d/071wn2d0273.htm (741 words)

	The Scotsman - Business - ANALYSIS: Graham Technology ups fight for Inchinnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		As Scotland’s largest home-grown software company, it has seen sales soar to more than £35 million in excess of the last three years and employs 150 people across the globe.
		Beardmore constructed the largest bombers for the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and, in a specially-designed hangar, the R34 airship which completed the first transatlantic air crossing in both directions in 1919.
		Company insiders are uncomfortable in finding themselves caught in a bitter war of words between Scottish Enterprise and Graham Technology.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=674742002 (1000 words)

	Did You Know? - Hillman Imp
		And a steam-powered "horseless carriage" was built and demonstrated in Edinburgh by William Symington in 1786.
		Companies such as Arrol-Johnston, Argyll and Albion were established before the end of the 19th century and in 1903 an Arrol-Johnston vehicle drove the 840 miles from Land's End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in Caithness.
		The Beardmore Motor Company in the 1920s was more successful, especially with a taxi-cab but production, but this was moved to be nearer its main market - in London.
	www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow_imp.htm (704 words)

	Taxi History - London Vintage Taxi Association
		The Scottish company William Beardmore and Co Ltd who were a major engineering concern making engines and private cars based in Paisley started to produce the Beardmore Mark 1 Taxicab in 1919.
		Beardmore did not have all it’s own way as Citröen entered the fray with their cab that took a fair share of the market.
		The Morris Commercial cab had fallen by the wayside many years previously and the last Beardmore; the Mark 7 (produced from 1955) was discontinued in 1967.
	www.lvta.co.uk /history.htm (1207 words)

	The de Havilland School of Flying
		Sir Sefton Branker was officially appointed as director of civil aviation, and it was largely due to his advocacy that arrangements were made for reputable aircraft concerns to operate schools at which Reservists of the Royal Air Force could put in their annual hours of flying.
		Originally four schools were formed in this way, each operated by a separate company: the de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd in Edgware; Sir William Beardmore and Company Ltd in Renfrew; Sir W G Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft Ltd in Witley (near Coventry) ; and The Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd in Filton.
		It was at this time that the schools were given numbers by the Air Ministry, and in recognition of the fact that the de Havilland School had been the first to operate, it was designated No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School.
	home.btconnect.com /paul.strickland/historydhsof.html (1408 words)

	1901663531 : William Beardmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		William Beardmore (later Lord Invernairn) made a considerable impact on the Scottish engineering industry at the turn of the 20th century.
		Beardmore products included aero engines, motorcycles, cars and zeppelins, while the company also built airstrips and the first flat deck aircraft carrier.
		William Beardmore was a great innovator but made several strategic business mistakes -- a historian of the Glasgow scene described him as "a man whose enormous vision and imagination were probably only matched by his poverty of judgement and lack of business skills."
	www.gazellebookservices.co.uk /ISBN/1901663531.htm (121 words)

	Airshipsonline : Airships : R34
		The original spec showed that her bomb-load was quite considerable: twenty at 100 lb and four at 550 lb.
		The firm of William Beardmore and Company Ltd., of Inchinnan, near Glasgow, began work on R.34 on 9 December 1917 and she was completed just over a year later on.
		But because of the persistently bad weather it was not until the following March that she left her hangar at lnchinnan, near Glasgow, where the Beardmore Company had their works.
	www.aht.ndirect.co.uk /airships/r34 (1346 words)

	Articles - Inchinnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The India Tyres site was previously used by William Beardmore and Company, who obtained a contract from the Admiralty to build airships in World War I.
		Some airship components were built at Beardmore's Dalmuir, Clydebank, factory but more land was needed.
		Beardmore's obtained land at Inchinnan and built the Inchinnan Airship Constructional Station.
	www.wadso.com /articles/Inchinnan (516 words)

	Graham Technology - Powering Process, Powering Technology
		Staff at Renfrewshire-based software solutions company, Graham Technology, say they’re not surprised their offices have been recognized as one of the best in the country.
		William Beardmore and Company Ltd produced a wide variety of commodities including motorcars, aeroplanes and airships at the site.
		Beardmores constructed the largest bombers for the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, In a specially designed hangar, many of the R series airships were built, including the R34 - which completed the first transatlantic air crossing in both directions in 1919.
	www.grahamtechnology.com /Home/AboutUs/News/NewsItem.jsp?id=n15106 (558 words)

	British motorcycle manufacturers P
		At this time they were calling themselves Beardmore-Precision after Scottish industrial giant William Beardmore and Co. injected new capital into the company.
		Beardmore withdrew its capital in 1924 and Baker pulled out, to make two-strokes under his own name (as F. Baker Ltd.).
		The company made several models, up to a massive 998cc V-twin until WW1 started, when they were known as Coventry-Premier Ltd. Innovative, they were also plagued by poor management.
	www.ianchadwick.com /motorcycles/britbikes/brit_p.html (837 words)

	Sopwith Aviation Company - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The company was founded in Kingston-upon-Thames by Thomas Octave Murdock (Tommy, later Sir Thomas) Sopwith, a well-to-do gentleman sportsman interested in aviation, yachting and motor-racing, in June of 1912.
		The Sopwith company was wound up in 1920 after failing to achieve sufficient success with civilian products (which had prompted the purchase of ABC Motors in 1919) to compensate for the drop in military aircraft orders after the end of the War and a potential large demand from the government for Excess War Profits Duty.
		Towards the end of the war the company produced the Cuckoo torpedo-bomber and the Salamander armoured ground-attack development of the Snipe, but these types were too late to see action.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Sopwith_Aviation_Company (1047 words)

	Motorsnippets
		William Beardmore, the ambitious entrepreneur, summed up his peace time strategy after World War l with the simple sentence "Transport is the Thing".
		By expanding the business which began with his grandfather in 1815 Beardmore was destined to make a considerable impact on the history of Scottish engineering.
		However, William Beardmore, the flawed visionary, lacked the technical knowledge to discriminate between genuine engineering advances and mechanical curiosities.
	www.motorsnippets.com /Sedgwick_Trust/sedgwick_achievements.asp (945 words)

	Overview of William Beardmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Born in London, Beardmore was the first son of Joseph Beardmore, Superintendent of the Deptford Works of the General Steam Navigation Company.
		Beardmore formed a partnership to take over their father's Parkhead Forge in the east-end of Glasgow in 1861.
		Beardmore married at Duddington (Edinburgh) in 1861, although his first son, who was to become the famed engineer and ship-builder Sir William Beardmore, was born some five years previously.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1238.html (155 words)

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