Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 240
ion was practically one boiler per week is, of itself,testimony to the nature of the plant adopted. The mainboiler shop, together with its yard, has an area of 7000square yards, and a height of 45 ft. to the crane rail, andis served by five overhead electric cranes, ranging in liftingpower up to… … w OQ w 1-1 o pq W WH Powerful Boiler-Making Tools. 115 need here be referred to. There is a 13-ft. gap hydraulicplate-bending machine, which is entirely automatic in itsaction, and can be set to any radius to bend plates up to2 in. thick when cold. The flanging for the front andback plates of…
