Armstrongs of Elswick - Growth in Engineering and Armaments to the Merger with Vickers (Hardcover, 1989 Ed.)

The factory specializing on hydraulic cranes, the engineers, armament makers and naval shipbuilders was set up in 1847 by William Armstrong at Elswick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. It had become, before 1900, the ordanance, armour, naval and merchant shipbuilding and commercial engineering giant, Armstrong Whitworth. Armstrongs was prominent in the half dozen world-ranking armament concerns. After the extensions and exertions of the Great War, it was faced with collapse. It then became one of the earliest subjects for Bank of England involvement in industrial reconstruction. This book analyzes Armstrong's 80 years rise, decline and reorganization, treating it, in some ways, as a case study of British industrial malaise. The author has had access to Armstrong papers and minute books at Tyne and Wear Archives and Vickers Ltd, material in the University of Glasgow's Business Archives, and the extensive files of the Securities Management Trust in the Bank of England.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Business History
Release date:	February 1990
Authors:	Kenneth Warren
Dimensions:	222 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	1989 Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-49759-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-333-49759-7
Barcode:	9780333497593

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