Title
Archive of Westwood, Baillie & Co, iron founders, bridge and shipbuilders
Reference
BAILE
Production date
1853 - 1909
Creator
- Westwood, Baillie & Co.BiographyBiography
Westwood, Baillie and Co. was a Victorian ship builders, bridge builders and boilermakers based at London Yard, Cubitt Town, Poplar, East London. The company was established in 1856 by Robert Baillie and Joseph Westwood with James Campbell - It was known as Westwood, Baillie, Campbell and Co. In 1862 Campbell left the company and Westwood, Baillie and Co. was the result.
The company had difficulty with the decline in Thames shipbuilding, production continued at London Yard with Westwood and Baillie acting as managers for the London Engineering and Iron Ship Building Co. They regained nominal control of London Yard in 1872.
The company's notable works include the largest armour plate bending machine ever manufactured, erected at Pembroke Dockyard in 1872. They were the engineers and contractors of the Great Kei Bridge, Transki, South Africa in 1879 and in 1880 they built ironwork for Attock Bridge, Pakistan.
The company wound up in 1893.
Scope and Content
Includes papers relating to company's claim against the Admiralty concerning the building of HMS Resistance. A few papers are of Robert Baillie, grandson, and date from the 1980s. Photographs are predominantly of bridges in Empire countries.
Extent
1 box
Language
English
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open Access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions
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