The Shipbuilding Industry
The Shipbuilding Industry

Author: L. A. Ritchie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780719038051

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This 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.

The Sale of Goods
The Sale of Goods

Author: Michael G. Bridge

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 0198765355

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This book is a systematic analysis of the modern English law of domestic sale of goods, covering in detail the following aspects of sale of goods contracts:* formation and definitions* passing of property and risk* mistake and frustration* contents of the contract and implied terms* delivery and payment* termination for breach* exclusion clauses* remedies and transfer of title.Full treatment is given to proprietary matters and the significant reforms which have taken place in recent years including the Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994, and the Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1995. The general law of contract is dealt with as it affects the special contract of sale, butexport sales materials are treated only to the extent that they illustrate delivery and payment. The paperback edition also includes a new preface designed for the student reader, covering recent developments in the sale of goods. This thorough and comprehensive book will be a valuable resource forstudents of commercial law as well as academics and practitioners working in the area.

Steel, Ships and Men
Steel, Ships and Men

Author: Kenneth Warren

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780853239222

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The firm of Cammell Laird originated in a boiler works in 1824 before growing and diversifying to become one of a small number of companies worldwide which could build, armor and arm the largest warships from the operations of a single company group. After World War I, it was reconstructed as a naval and mercantile shipbuilder with important financial interests in steel and rolling stock manufacture. Booming activity in World War II and continuing prosperity until the late 1950s was followed by increasing competition and deepening problems. By the 1980s the firm’s remaining steel interests had failed; in 1993 the once great Birkenhead shipyard closed. How and why did the businesses grow, then experience such problems and eventually collapse? This book tries to find answers. "... this study will be of great value to those researching the development of heavy industry in Britain."—Business History "... a gold mine of information and guidance for future historians."—Nautical Research Journal

The Battleship Builders
The Battleship Builders

Author: Ian Johnston

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1612519466

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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were completed, almost exactly double what Germany achieved. This heroic achievement was made possible by the country’s vast industrial nexus of shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, armament firms and specialist armor producers, whose contribution to the creation of the Grand Fleet is too often ignored.