Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 222
engines were being machined and finishedduring the month of January and the beginning of February,1905 ; and all of the twenty sets of engines and boilerswere completed by the end of May. Another noteworthycase is the construction of the machinery for the steamshipFengtien, described on page 80,… … X w I—I H y. Foundries and Forge. 107 time taken from the beginning of work was well under fivemonths.1 The pattern shop, where all work originates, is fittedwith the usual pattern-making machinery, including a core-making machine. The iron foundry, which was begun in 1790,2 and aroundwhich the…
