Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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D. M. Cumming

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December 1889.

Blackhill Dock, Parkhead, Glasgow

1882 The business appears as William S. Cumming, shipbuilder, Blackhill Dock, Monkland Canal.[1] By 1889 this had changed to D. M. Cumming.

1918 D. M. Cumming Limited, Blackhill Shipyard, Riddrie, Glasgow, was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £10,000.[2]

The shipyard came increasingly under the control of Henry Robb Limited of Leith.

1928 Henry Robb took over the business entirely with a view to concentrating production at Leith.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Post Office Annual Glasgow Directory 1882-1883
  2. The Scotsman 21 September 1918
  3. Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, April 12, 1928
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/10114