At the Sharp End! A shipbuilding autobiography
Details:
- Author(s) Parker, George H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 207pp; illus
- Publisher Brown Son & Ferguson
- Place Published Glasgow
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Autobiography of a senior shipbuilding manager. George H Parker, b1928 in Scotland, was in his family a third generation shipbuilder and worked all his life in the industry. Started as a management apprentice at Alexander Stephen & Son Ltd, Glasgow, in 1946 and moved on to a succession of leading shipbuilding businesses as manager of a single ship construction; management of a shipyard's production; to management of a group of shipyards both in the private and public sectors. Retired c1980s. He relates his experiences at different companies often devoting a chapter per company. These are Lithgows Ltd which he joined as a junior executive in 1954 [pp40-51]; John Brown & Co Ltd where he was 'Shipyard Director' from 1963 [pp57-78]; Upper Clyde Shipbuilders where he was Director of the Clydebank Division [pp83-7]; from 1968 at Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd where he was, inter alia, Managing Director of Smith's Dock Co Ltd [pp88-101, 102-13, 114-27; British Shipbuilders Corp where he was Managing Director of the Ship Repair Division [pp128-44]; Austin & Pickersgill Ltd where he was Managing Director in 1983 [pp145-63]; North East Shipbuilders Ltd where he was Managing Director in 1986 [pp164-72]