Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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David Tod

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of Tod and McGregor, shipbuilders.

c.1833 David Tod and John McGregor moved with David Napier from Camlachie Foundry to Lancefield Foundry. About 1833 they decided to go into business on their own account; Napier offered them his Lancefield works but they declined, preferring to start with a smaller enterprise which became Tod and McGregor

1910 Died suddenly in London at the age of seventy years.[1]

c.1872/4 Mr. David Tod, Junior sold the business to Messrs. Handyside and Henderson for £200,000.[2].

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1910
  2. British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss