of Livingstone Street, Clydebank, Glasgow.
1934 Private company incorporated to make soot blowers[1]
1945 Advert for soot blowers for boilers.[2]
1959 Public company; shares floated on the Stock Exchange
1960 Advert for soot blowers.[3]
2007 Weir Group sold its Glasgow-based business Weir Pumps to Jim McColl's Clyde Blowers plc, with the pump company subsequently being renamed as Clyde Pumps
2008 Clyde Blowers acquired Textron Fluid and Power Inc, including David Brown Hydraulics
The David Brown company, now trading as David Brown Gear Systems Ltd, is a leading supplier of heavy transmission systems for industrial, defence and marine applications.