Millen Brothers
Shipbuilders and steelwork contractors, Saucel Iron Works, Paisley
1905 Business established in Glasgow by John White Millen and his brother A Hood Millen
1919 The business was transferred to the Saucel site in Paisley, which had previously housed a brewery. The site operated as a dry-land shipyard, building light draft vessels, barges and pontoons for shipment and re-erection, as well as steel tanks and chimneys
1940 Incorporated as Millen Brothers Limited
1968 The company ceased trading and went into voluntary liquidation the following year
1977 The company was finally dissolved
See Also
Sources of Information
- National Records of Scotland BT2/1977/362
- Directory of Shipowners, Shipbuilders and Marine Engineers 1955
- Shipbuilding and Shipping Record October 4 1968
- Edinburgh Gazette 16 May 1969 p 380
- Daily Record 28 September 2013