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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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MacLaren Brothers

From Graces Guide

of Dumbarton

1909 MacLaren Brothers built a steel vessel for Mavor and Coulson to demonstrate their electrical propulsion system[1]

1910 MacLaren Brothers Limited, of Sandpoint, Dumbarton, was registered as a private company, with capital of £11,000, to acquire the business of MacLaren Brothers, engineers and launch builders.[2]

1910 Alexander Pearson MacLaren, Frank Logan MacLaren, and Henry Borland MacLaren were joint patentees on a patent relating to improvements in motor boats

1920 Showed four-cylinder paraffin engine at 1920 Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Engine Exhibition[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Aug 10, 1910
  2. The Scotsman 22 January 1910
  3. The Engineer of 2nd April 1920 p346
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/7414