Catalogue description The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company Limited

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Title: The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company Limited
Description:

CONTENTS

 

DS.WS/1-DS.WS/6 Minutes and directors papers

 

DS.WS/7-DS.WS/14 Shares and shareholders

 

DS.WS/15-DS.WS/16 Correspondence

 

DS.WS/17-DS.WS/30 First World War papers

 

DS.WS/31-DS.WS/49 Financial records

 

DS.WS/50-DS.WS/54 Willington Gut construction

 

DS.WS/55-DS.WS/67 Graving dock construction

 

DS.WS/68-DS.WS/69 Timber quays construction

 

DS.WS/70-DS.WS/73 Wayleaves etc

 

DS.WS/74-DS.WS/82 Company property

 

DS.WS/83-DS.WS/91 Workforce: wages, compensation, accidents etc

 

DS.WS/92-DS.WS/94 Advertisements and catalogues

 

DS.WS/95 Agency agreements

 

DS.WS/96 Licences to use patented products

 

DS.WS/97 & DS.WS/157 Specifications

 

DS.WS/98-DS.WS/104 Tenders

 

DS.WS/105-DS.WS/111 Orders

 

DS.WS/112-DS.WS/124 Contracts

 

DS.WS/125-DS.WS/128 Trials

 

DS.WS/129-DS.WS/130 Delivery

 

DS.WS/131-DS.WS/140 Costs

 

DS.WS/141-DS.WS/142 Plans

 

DS.WS/143 Photographs

 

DS.WS/144 Company histories

 

DS.WS/145 Other printed material

 

DS.WS/146 International Congress of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

 

DS.WS/147-DS.WS/154 Wallsend Pontoon Company Limited, Cardiff
Date: 1871 - 1968
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company Limited

Wallsend Slipway Company

Swan Hunter Group
Physical description: 157 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession numbers 1471, 1551, 2147 (part), 2271 and 2450 (part).
Subjects:
  • Shipbuilding
  • Construction engineering
Administrative / biographical background:

The Company commenced business in 1871 as the Wallsend Slipway Company, with two slipways and doing repair work only. These slipways remained in use until 1909 when they were dismantled and the land used to expand the business. A new graving dock was added in 1895.

 

From repairing ships, they went on to lengthen them too. From 1874, instead of just repairing engines and boilers, they began to build them as well. A new boiler shop was built in 1881, extended in 1904 to accommodate the giant boilers of the RMS Mauretania.

 

In 1903, the company joined the Swan Hunter group, but continued to operate on its own. However, in 1962/63, technical control of both Wallsend Slipway and the Swan Hunter Neptune Engine Works was combined to produce an even more powerful engineering group.
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