Hundred Years of Howden Engineering. A brief history, 1854-1954
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- Author(s) Hume, Crawford W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1954
- Pages 56pp; illus
- Publisher The firm
- Place Published Glasgow
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- Name National Library of Scotland
- City Edinburgh
- County Lothian
- Country Scotland
- Postcode EH1 1EW
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Commissioned narrative history. Written by the chairman, Crawford W Hume? Has sections: 'Increasing interest in steamships'; 'Marine consulting engineer'; 'Marine engineers and shipbuilders'; 'Howden's forced draught system'; 'Beginnings of auxiliary machinery'; 'Broadening the scope'; 'The First World War'; 'Auxiliary machinery for installations on land'; 'The Second World War'. Includes schedule of 'Ships contracted for or engined', 1863-90. Illustrations of 1954 products