'Rationalisation of the slow speed marine diesel engine building in the UK,1912-1990' in D J Starkey & H Murphy (eds), Beyond Shipping and Shipbuilding. Britain's ancilliary maritime interests in the twentieth century
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- Author(s) Johnman, Lewis, & Hugh Murphy
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2007
- Pages pp29-64
- Publisher Hull University
- Place Published Hull
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Industrial rationalisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Explores marine slow speed diesel engine [SSD] production in UK, but notably that of William Doxford & Sons Ltd of Sunderland, focusing on the gradual rationalisation of the industry and in three parts, viz: 1] development before 1960; 2] 1960-72 period marked by government intervention to facilitate rationalisation in order to improve competitiveness; 3] 1970s-90s and the experience of nationalisation and privatisation