Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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British Marine Motor and Launch Co

From Graces Guide

of South Street, Whiteinch, Glasgow (1919)

of Old Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire

1910 Business established

1914 The British Marine Motor and Launch Company Limited, 685 South Street, Whiteinch, Glasgow, was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £5,250, to take over the business of the same name, motor yacht builders and engineers.[1]

1920 Hercules engine.

1922 Directors: Wm. H. Howden (Chairman ), J. Howden Hume and J. B. McGillivray. Employees about 300. Manufactured: motor cruisers, motor lifeboats with wireless outfits, collapsible lifeboats, flying boats, sailing yachts, ships' boats, paraffin motors.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Scotsman 12 December 1914
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/9283