Mersey Engine Works Co
of Sefton Street, Liverpool. Later at Shaw Road, Speke.
1907 Advertising launches, driven by steam, oil, or suction gas.[1]
1920 'MERSEY ENGINE WORKS HARLAND & WOLFF. The Mersey Engine Works, in Sefton-street, Liverpool, is an integral part of the business of Elder, Dempster and Co., being in fact the repairing yard for the big shipping company, are, by a process of co-ordination, to be placed under the same control as the works of Harland and Wolff at Bootle. It is really a matter of internal re-arrangement, which confers uniformity of administration. Mr. J. B. Wilkie, who has been superintendent engineer of the Elder, Dempster Line for a number of years, is the manager of the Mersey Engine Works, and Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff, is, together with Sir Owen Philipps, a director of Elder, Dempster and Company.'[2]
Location of Liverpool works: The 1906/1908 25" O.S. map here shows the works as a rectanglar block, about 120 by 300 ft, on Sefton Street, bounded on the north by Stanhope Street, on the east by Crow Street, and on the south by Perry Street. On the opposite side of Sefton Street was a granary and the entrance to Coburg Dock and Queen's Dock.