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Menzies of Leith
Shipbuilding company
1664 Business established.
1760 Business founded by Robert Menzies
1835 Built the Seahorse, subsequently renamed Sirius, which became a pioneering (1838) transatlantic steamship of 703 tons, powered by an engine by Wingate[1]
1922 Employees: average 450. Maker of ship repairing fittings, marine engines lifeboats, etc.
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