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 173,163 pages of information and 249,770 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.

Humber Graving Dock and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide
1961. Henderson dry dock.

of Immingham

1909 Public company.

1956 Acquired by Richardsons, Westgarth and Co[1].

1961 Ship and engine repairers, brass founders and constructional engineers. 800 employees.

1972 STEEL STOCKHOLDERS LIMITED INCORPORATING HUMBER GRAVING DOCK & ENG. CO. LTD. STOCK DIVISION and C. and C. WRIGHT (Grimsby) LTD. KING EDWARD STREET, GRIMSBY, LINCS. ...[2]

1975 Identified as a firm to be nationalised[3]

1979 Richardsons Westgarth had interests in the Hull area: Humber Graving Dock, HGD Steel Stockholders Ltd, Simpsons of Spalding[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 9 January 1958
  2. Gainsborough Evening News 11 July 1972
  3. The Times Mar. 18, 1975
  4. Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian 15 June 1979