A Ship Supplier's Story
Details:
- Author(s) Braithwaite, Hugh
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 72pp; illus
- Publisher The firm
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Library:
- Name Science Museum Library
- City South Kensington
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode SW7 5NH
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Notes:
Commissioned narrative account, the writer drawing on his 40 year career with the business but also drawing on L T C Holt, 'Mariners' Market', 1961. Chapters include: 'Role of the ship supplier'; 'The Burnyeats at Whitehaven'; 'Liverpool'; 'Progress and development'; 'Widening horizons'; 'Family tradition'; 'The difficult years'; 'Retrenchment'; 'Years of change'; 'Association'; 'Back on the attack - the way ahead'