Hanna, Donald and Wilson
of Abbercorn Foundry and Abbey Works, Paisley, shipbuilders, engineers, millwrights, boiler makers.
Formerly Reid and Hanna
1851 Name changed to Hanna, Donald and Wilson when James Donald became a partner
1874 Made operating gear for locks on the Weaver Navigation.
James Donald brought his 3 sons into the business - presumably James Donald, Junior, Robert Hanna Donald and one other, possibly William Donald.
1879 'THE LATE MR ROBERT WILSON. As will be Men from our column, Mr. Robert Wilson, one the partners the well-known firm of Hanna, Donald, Wilson, engineers mad shipbuilders, died at his residence at Underwood on Sunday last, in his fifty-third year. The firm with which Mr. Wilson has for nearly twenty years been connected was famous nearly half a century ago for the efficiency of their swift canal boats, built of iron, and which before the railway era they supplied canals in all parts of the Kingdom. In later years, the firm undertook gigantic contracts for gas-holders, iron bridges, etc., in various parts of the world. The Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh, and the Albert Bridge, Glasgow, were constructed by them ; and the recently-finished bridge Seedhill here is, though smaller, an equally satisfactory specimen of their work. .....'[1]
1889 See 1889 Shipbuilding Statistics for detail of the tonnage produced
By 1901 the firm was involved in shipbuilding, bridge building, boilermaking, gasworks plant, marine, hydraulic, and general engineering.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette - Saturday 17 May 1879
- L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992)
- [1] Historic England