Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,701 pages of information and 247,104 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.
1883 Built by Aitken and Mansel at Whiteinch, Glasgow; electric lighting was fitted and refrigerated compartment to provide fresh meat for the passengers.
1888 The Union Steamship Co's Royal Mail steamer Tartar was converted from compound to triple expansion engines[1]
1889 After an accident, the iron propeller shafting was replaced by steel shafting[2]
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