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Harker, John, Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Stainsby & Lyon Ltd
  • Lyon & Lyon Ltd
  • Worfolk & Galick
  • Gloucester Shipyard Ltd
  • Severn & Canal Carrying Co Ltd
  • Sharpness Shipyard

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, South West, England
  • Knottingley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England

Sectors:

  • Transport services Inland navigations carrier services
  • Transport equipment production Small craft building & repairing exc ships

Notes:

Traced origins to John Harker who in 1877 established a canal carrying business associated with the tar distillers Stainsby & Lyon Ltd, later Lyon & Lyon Ltd. Acquired in 1918 by Stainsbys as John Harker Ltd. In 1920s Harkers acquired shipbuilding yard of Worfolk & Galick to build canal craft. Established Gloucester Shipyard Ltd, with Severn & Canal Carrying Co Ltd, in 1939 and Sharpness Shipyard in 1946. Emerged as major canal carriers and canal craft builders. Shipbuilding ceased in 1979

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