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 169,043 pages of information and 247,605 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Great Western Iron Ship Building and Engine Works

From Graces Guide

1839 Great Western Steamship Co set up its own engine works to build the engines for SS Great Britain. [1]

1843 Patent by Thomas Richard Guppy, of the Great Western Iron Ship Building and Steam Engine Works, Bristol, civil engineer, for certain improvements in the building of metal ships and other .....[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. Brunel's Three Ships by Dumpleton, Muriel Miller [1]
  2. Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette 15 July 1843