Catalogue description GOUROCK ROPEWORK CO
This record is held by Doncaster Archives
Reference: | DY/BRI/18 |
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Title: | GOUROCK ROPEWORK CO |
Description: |
The records listed below relate almost entirely to the later years of the overseas companies |
Related material: |
The records of the Scottish-based works are deposited in the Glasgow University Archives. |
Held by: | Doncaster Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The firm, based at Port Glasgow had its origins in the eighteenth century (see DY/BRI/18/12) in the manufacture of hempen rope and canvas. In 1938 it acquired the wire rope making firm of Archibald Thomson, Black and Co. |
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