Catalogue description Westmoor Engineering Ltd, fabrication engineers, Pallion, Sunderland

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Title: Westmoor Engineering Ltd, fabrication engineers, Pallion, Sunderland
Description:

Company Records
Date: 1898-1937
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Westmoor Engineering Ltd, Pallion, Sunderland

Westmoor Engine Works Co Ltd, 1898-?
Physical description: 9 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 3566
Subjects:
  • Engineering
Administrative / biographical background:

Established 1898 as the Westmoor Engine Works Co Ltd by Ernie Lynn and Tommy Allen. There may have been some connection with John Lynn, Engineers already established in Pallion. Westmoor was bought by Arthur Kingsley Ward in 1930 and remains in the Ward family. Specialising in watertight doors for ships, early production also included other general engineering including steam engines, often but not entirely, for local shipyards. With the demise of local shipbuilding specialist doors and hatches have been made for export and other uses such as protection from nuclear, biological and chemical contamination.
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