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Broomside Boiler Works Co

From Graces Guide
1932 (from ‘A Shipbuilding History’)

1924 The Broomside Boiler Works Company Limited, Broomside Boiler Works, Motherwell, was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £20,000.[1] It was founded on the initiative of James A. Marshall and Andrew B. Colquhoun.

1949 Two Motherwell boiler-making families were brought together in a merger that formed Marshall and Anderson from the Broomside Boiler Works Co and Alexander Anderson and Sons Ltd.[2]

1977 The company went into receivership.[3]. It was eventually dissolved in 1988.[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Scotsman 20 December 1924
  2. Motherwell Times 6 January 1950
  3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/20045/page/339
  4. National Records of Scotland BT2/1988/13424