Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Randolph, Elder & Co
- Govan Old Shipyard
- Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd
- Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
- Lithgow family
- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd
- Elder, John
- Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd
- Sperling Combine
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Gwent, Wales, Wales
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
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Transport equipment production
Marine engines & other marine equipment production
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Transport equipment production
Shipbuilding & repairing exc small craft
Notes:
Traced origins to Randolph, Elder & Co, dating to 1835, which began to build marine engines in c1852 and to build ships in c1860 at Govan having in 1858 acquired Govan Old Shipyard. 1870 business reformed as John Elder & Co. 1886 incorporated as Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd. 1905 part owner of Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd. From 1919 part of Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd, a vehicle of the Sperling Combine, and in 1935 acquired by Lithgow family. From 1924 had works at Chepstow, Wales. Built wide range of vessels but notably major warships and ocean liners. In receivership 1965. 1966 relaunched as Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd with improved management and working practices in what was known as Fairfields Project, a government supported initiative also involving unions, management and private capital. 1968 became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd and later functioned at Govan Shipbuilders Ltd
Publications:
- [Illustrated Brochure Showing Ships Built and Work Accomplished Particularly During the European War] by Unknown
- Armaments and profits. The case of Fairfield by More, C R V
- Battleship Builders. Constructing and arming British capital ships by Johnston, Ian, & Ian Buxton
- British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914 by Pollard, Sidney, & Paul L Robertson
- 'Building of the Ship'; being an historical and descriptive narrative of the works of the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd by Unknown
- Case Studies in British Management, Public and Business Sectors, 1900-present. An analysis of internal and external management by McTavish, Duncan
- Chepstow Yards by Bowen, Frank C
- 'Costs and contracts. Lessons from Clyde shipbuilding between the wars' in A Slaven & D H Aldcroft (eds), Business, Banking and Urban History. Essays in honour of S G Checkland by Campbell, Roy H
- Coventry Syndicate. Builders of battleships, cruisers, scouts, destroyers and all classes of vessels and manufacturers of munitions of war by Unknown
- Fairfield 1860-1960 by Unknown
- Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, 1889-1914 by More, C R V
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. History of the company and description of the works by Unknown
- Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd by Unknown
- Fairfields. A study of industrial change by Alexander, Kenneth J W, & Carson L Jenkins
- Fairfields Project by Houston, James D
- Historical and Descriptive Account of the Works of The Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd by Unknown
- Memoir of John Elder, Engineer and Shipbuilder by Rankine, William J M
- Planning and profits. British naval armaments manufacture and the military complex, 1918-1941 by Miller, Christopher W
- 'Riches beyond the Dreams of Avarice'?: Commercial Returns on British Warship Construction, 1889-1914 by Arnold, A J
- 'Shipbuilding between the wars. An accountant's view of the experience of the Fairfield company' in F M Walker & A Slaven (eds), European Shipbuilding. One hundred years of change. Proceedings of the third shipbuilding history conference held at the National Maritime Museum ..., 1983 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Shipyards, scandal and pigstyes. Changing Chepstow in the First World War by Hamilton, Guy
- Souvenir Book. Visit of Their Majesties ... to Fairfield Shipbuilding Works, 8th July 1914 by Unknown
- Study in failure. J & G Thomson and shipbuilding at Clydebank, 1871-1890 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. A study of government intervention in industry ... the way the money goes by Broadway, Frank
- Warship Building on the Clyde. Naval orders and the prosperity of the Clyde shipbuilding industry, 1889-1939 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Whatever Happened at Fairfields? by Paulden, Sydney M, & Bill Hawkins
- Workshop of the British Empire. Engineering and shipbuilding in the West of Scotland by Moss, Michael, & John R Hume
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Randolph, Elder & Co
- Govan Old Shipyard
- Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd
- Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
- Lithgow family
- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd
- Elder, John
- Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd
- Sperling Combine
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Gwent, Wales, Wales
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
- Transport equipment production Marine engines & other marine equipment production
- Transport equipment production Shipbuilding & repairing exc small craft
Notes:
Traced origins to Randolph, Elder & Co, dating to 1835, which began to build marine engines in c1852 and to build ships in c1860 at Govan having in 1858 acquired Govan Old Shipyard. 1870 business reformed as John Elder & Co. 1886 incorporated as Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd. 1905 part owner of Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd. From 1919 part of Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd, a vehicle of the Sperling Combine, and in 1935 acquired by Lithgow family. From 1924 had works at Chepstow, Wales. Built wide range of vessels but notably major warships and ocean liners. In receivership 1965. 1966 relaunched as Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd with improved management and working practices in what was known as Fairfields Project, a government supported initiative also involving unions, management and private capital. 1968 became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd and later functioned at Govan Shipbuilders LtdPublications:
- [Illustrated Brochure Showing Ships Built and Work Accomplished Particularly During the European War] by Unknown
- Armaments and profits. The case of Fairfield by More, C R V
- Battleship Builders. Constructing and arming British capital ships by Johnston, Ian, & Ian Buxton
- British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914 by Pollard, Sidney, & Paul L Robertson
- 'Building of the Ship'; being an historical and descriptive narrative of the works of the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd by Unknown
- Case Studies in British Management, Public and Business Sectors, 1900-present. An analysis of internal and external management by McTavish, Duncan
- Chepstow Yards by Bowen, Frank C
- 'Costs and contracts. Lessons from Clyde shipbuilding between the wars' in A Slaven & D H Aldcroft (eds), Business, Banking and Urban History. Essays in honour of S G Checkland by Campbell, Roy H
- Coventry Syndicate. Builders of battleships, cruisers, scouts, destroyers and all classes of vessels and manufacturers of munitions of war by Unknown
- Fairfield 1860-1960 by Unknown
- Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, 1889-1914 by More, C R V
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. History of the company and description of the works by Unknown
- Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd by Unknown
- Fairfields. A study of industrial change by Alexander, Kenneth J W, & Carson L Jenkins
- Fairfields Project by Houston, James D
- Historical and Descriptive Account of the Works of The Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd by Unknown
- Memoir of John Elder, Engineer and Shipbuilder by Rankine, William J M
- Planning and profits. British naval armaments manufacture and the military complex, 1918-1941 by Miller, Christopher W
- 'Riches beyond the Dreams of Avarice'?: Commercial Returns on British Warship Construction, 1889-1914 by Arnold, A J
- 'Shipbuilding between the wars. An accountant's view of the experience of the Fairfield company' in F M Walker & A Slaven (eds), European Shipbuilding. One hundred years of change. Proceedings of the third shipbuilding history conference held at the National Maritime Museum ..., 1983 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Shipyards, scandal and pigstyes. Changing Chepstow in the First World War by Hamilton, Guy
- Souvenir Book. Visit of Their Majesties ... to Fairfield Shipbuilding Works, 8th July 1914 by Unknown
- Study in failure. J & G Thomson and shipbuilding at Clydebank, 1871-1890 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. A study of government intervention in industry ... the way the money goes by Broadway, Frank
- Warship Building on the Clyde. Naval orders and the prosperity of the Clyde shipbuilding industry, 1889-1939 by Peebles, Hugh B
- Whatever Happened at Fairfields? by Paulden, Sydney M, & Bill Hawkins
- Workshop of the British Empire. Engineering and shipbuilding in the West of Scotland by Moss, Michael, & John R Hume