The History of Cammell Laird
Author: Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd
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Published: 1977*
Total Pages: 24
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Author: Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd
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Published: 1977*
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Akermann
Publisher: Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781904381051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the development of submarines covered in this book spans the most tumultuous years of the 20th century. When the little Holland No. 1 was launched in 1901, few could guess that the submarine would become the most potent weapon of war ever developed.
Author: Michael Connolly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 113535037X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: L. A. Ritchie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719038051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work aims to facilitate the study of the shipbuilding industry by making available information on the present location of shipbuilding archives. The brief histories of about 200 businesses are offered.
Author: Maggie Mort
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008-02-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780262257824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by retelling unofficial histories of Trident, of production roads not taken, and of potential technological "distractions." The production of Trident, she shows, was not inevitable but contingent and problematic. Using material from interviews and local texts, Mort explores the emergence of a counternetwork in the form of a workers' campaign for alternative technologies. She develops concepts of "disenrollment" and "absent intermediaries," in which redundant workers and marginalized technologies serve to discipline and reinforce the dominant network as production shrinks. She also examines the maintenance of the barrier between the technical and the social/political in this context. The management of uncertainties within the Trident production program emerges as critical to its successful completion.
Author: Ian Johnston
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2013-05-08
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 1473822262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, and more united to build Britain’s Grand Fleet: “Superbly written…One of the best naval titles I have seen.”—Marine News The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked in the same arms race with Germany, Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex, and costlier vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly; in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double what Germany achieved. It was only made possible by a vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament fleets, and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the Grand Fleet is too often ignored. This heroic achievement, and how it was done, is the subject of this book. It charts the rise of the large industrial conglomerates that were key to this success, looks at the reaction to fast-moving technical changes, and analyzes the politics of funding this vast national effort, both before and beyond the Great War. It also attempts to assess the true cost—and value—of the Grand Fleet in terms of the resources consumed. And finally, by way of contrast, it describes the effects of the postwar recession, industrial contraction, and the very different responses to rearmament in the run up to the Second World War. Includes photographs
Author: Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Marren
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1784996432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroaching tide of right-wing politics and sweeping de-industrialisation. This critique explores six case studies which will illustrate how elements of a highly politicised local working-class fought against the rapid rise in forced redundancies and industrial closures. Some of their responses included strikes, factory occupations, the organisation and politicisation of the unemployed, consent to radical left-wing municipal politics, as well as tacit endorsement a period of violent civil unrest. This critique concludes that in the range, intensity and use of innovative tactics deployed during these conflicts, Liverpool was distinctive.
Author: Herbert B. Mason
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 3864443997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author: Luke Johnson
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1905641400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrotea regular column as "The Maverick" in The "SundayTelegraph". His short, pithy essays tackled subjectsranging from rich lists to bankrupt companies, from highfinance to investment techniques, from philanthropy totrophy wives, bringing a practitioner's eye to thecommercial world ......