Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 90
l for marine propelling machinery. Owing to thefact that the oil engine is usually single acting and works onthe two-cycle or four-cycle principle, it is found necessary toadopt a flywheel, in order to produce the even turning momenton the shaft required for satisfactory starting or manoeuvring. 1… … CO > < o o oo P=<O CO I—i W o w Scotts Work for China Services. 43 The Scotts throughout the century continued to have aclose association with the China trade, constructing a longseries of successful steamers for the Holt and other lineswith services from Britain to the Far East, and…
