Weir Group. A centenary history
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- Author(s) Reader, William J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1971
- Pages 238pp; illus
- Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly commissioned history of what was then Scotland's largest engineering group, to mark the centenary of its foundation. Largely chronological with relatively little coverage post 1945. Has chapters: 'Inventions of a ship's engineer, 1870-95'; 'Expanding market, 1895-1914'; 'Weirs and the motor industry, 1902-12'; 'The Great War, 1914-18'; 'Weirs in the postwar world'; 'Diversions in the twenties - housing and Mondel Metal'; 'Depression, autogiros and rearmament, 1929-39'; 'The Second World War'; 'Direction finding in the fifties'; 'The holding company'. Includes lengthy appendices including 'Statistical records of G & J Weir Ltd and the Weir Group' and analysis of orders [pp189-98]