Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,994 pages of information and 246,688 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

PS Industry

From Graces Guide
2016. The 1828 engine by Caird and Co
2016

The Industry, built at Fairlie in 1814 by William Fyfe, was the seventh river steamer to be constructed on the Clyde, and she earned the distinction of being the oldest steamer in the world before she was broken up. Mr. Fyfe built the “ Industry,” with oak grown in his native parish of Kilbirnie, for a small syndicate of far-seeing speculators belonging to Beith. The original engines of the “Industry” were made by Dobbie, but in 1828, she was re-engined by Caird and Co., of Greenock. See PS Comet: Successors by James Williamson.

The engine was recovered when the vessel was broken up, and is now displayed at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow.

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