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Crossing the Bar : an Oral History of the British Shipbuilding, Ship Repairing and Marine Engine-Building Industries in the Age of Decline, 1956-1990.

This book is a collection of sixty interviews with key figures in British shipbuilding, ship repair, and marine engine-building industries across the United Kingdom, plus government and civil service members in the sector from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slaven, Anthony
Otros Autores: Murphy, Hugh, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Colección:Research in Maritime History LUP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Contents; About the Authors; Preface: A Shipbuilding Libretto; Introduction; Interviews; Lower Clyde; 1. Alexander Ross Belch, Lithgows, Scott Lithgow, British Shipbuilders Plc; 2. Johnston Robb, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering, Scott Lithgow Ltd.; 3. Willie Ferguson, William Hamilton and Sons, Lithgows, Scott Lithgow Ltd.; Upper Clyde; 4. Sir Eric Yarrow, Weir Engineering, Cathcart, Yarrow Shipbuilders; 5. Dr. Brian Baxter, Yarrow Shipbuilders; 6. Bob Easton, Yarrow Shipbuilders; 7. Sandy Stephen, Alexander Stephen Shipbuilders and Engineers.
  • 8. Professor John Rorke, Alexander Stephen, Denny Brothers, Brown Brothers9. Fred Walker, Denny Brothers, Fairfield, Connell and Hall Russell; 10. Jolyon Slogett, Denny Brothers, Houlder Bros., British Shipbuilders Plc; 11. Dr. John Brown, John Brown, Clydebank; 12. Graham Strachan, Alexander Stephen, John Brown and Scott Lithgow; 13. J.F. Starks, John Brown, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders; 14. Anthony Hepper, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders; 15. Harry Osborne, Civil Engineer; The Tyne; 16. G.H.R. Towers, John Redhead and Sons Ltd.; 17. J.E. Steele, Swan Hunter, British Shipbuilders Plc.
  • 18. Peter Milne, Swan Hunter, British Shipbuilders Plc19. P.D. Christie, Swan Hunter; 20. James Jardine, Smith's Dock, Swan Hunter; 21. Eric Crowdy, Hawthorn Leslie, George Clark NEM, William Doxford Engineers; 22. M.F. Pyman, Mercantile Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Jarrow; The Wear; 23. Arthur Storey, NEM, Doxford and Vickers Engineers, Austin and Pickersgill; 24. Ken Douglas, Wm. Gray, Austin and Pickersgill, UCS, British Shipbuilders Plc; 25. Derek Kimber, Fairfield, Harland and Wolff, Austin and Pickersgill; Barrow-in-Furness.
  • 26. Bill Richardson, Vickers Armstrong, Swan Hunter, British Shipbuilders Plc27. Roy Turner, Vickers; The South Coast; 28. Peter Usher, Vosper Thornycroft; The Humber; 29. John Leathard, Richard Dunston, Hessle; Belfast; 30. Dr. Denis Rebbeck, Harland and Wolff; 31. T. John Parker, Harland and Wolff, Austin and Pickersgill, British Shipbuilders Plc; 32. Eric Mackie, Harland and Wolff Ship Repairers, British Shipbuilders Plc; British Shipbuilding Industry Officials; 33. R.D. Brown, SRNA, AWES; 34. Joseph Charles Asher, SEF, Shipbuilding Conference, BSRA.
  • 35. G.R. Snaith, BSRA, British Shipbuilders PlcThe Trade Unions; 36. James Airlie, Lobnitz, Faifield, UCS, Amalgamated Engineering Union; 37. Jim McFall, Boilermakers Society; 38. Alex Ferry, AEU, Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; The Civil Servants, Board of Trade, Shipbuilding Enquiry Committee, Shipbuilding Industry Board, Ministry of Technology, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Industry; 39. Reay Geddes, Shipbuilding Inquiry Committee; 40. Victor Chapman, Board of Trade, Ministry of Technology, DTI, SIC; 41. Cliff Baylis. Ministry of Technology, SRNA.