John Brown & Co (Clydebank) Ltd, engineers and shipbuilders

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Date:	1847-1972
Places:	Clydebank, Dunbartonshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Mechanical engineering (general) \| Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C109749 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6114 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1847-1972: corporate, financial, sales, production, technical and property records, photographs and press cuttings	Glasgow University Archive Services	UCS1	NRA 14659 UCS See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1896-1953: ship and turbine specifications, technical notes, notebooks, photographs (deposited by Sir Stephen J Pigott, managing director)	Glasgow University Archive Services	Accn 2230	See Annual Return 2002
3	1886-1949: summary ledgers, journal, photographs	Sheffield City Archives	X312
4	1906-1907: riveters' piece work book, riveters' squad book	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	CS96/4820-1	See Annual Report 1979 p25
5	hydrodynamic testing records	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive		See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
6	1911-13: plans of HMS Australia	Glasgow City Archives	TD232/140
7	1905-1949: ship costing records and balance sheets	Glasgow University Archive Services	Accn 2379	See Annual Return 2003