Shipbuilders to the World. 125 years of Harland & Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986
Details:
- Author(s) Moss, Michael, & John R Hume
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 601pp; illus
- Publisher Blackstaff
- Place Published Belfast
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history. Narrative account. Extensive tables throughout text showing financial analysis. Extensive ship list as an appendix [pp506-65]. Much about Admiralty as a customer. Much about individual ships and their owners especially: Elder Dempster Co Ltd; BP Tanker Co Ltd / British Tanker Co Ltd; Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd; Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd / White Star Line; Pacific Steam Navigation Co; P&O Steam Navigation Co; Royal Mail Group / Royal Mail Lines Ltd / Royal Mail Steam Packet Co; Union Castle Steamship Co; Andrew Weir & Co Ltd;