R. and H. Green and Silley Weir
of London Street, London
1894 Private company formed as R. and H. Green Ltd, successor to the old established firm of Wigram and Green which had divided in 1843 into separate Wigram and Green family businesses.
1902 with the decline of Thames shipbuilding, R. & H. Green became part of the well-known ship repairing partnership, R. and H. Green and Silley Weir. The Blackwall yard remained in use, with a major graving dock but the main site was at the Royal Albert Dry Docks.
1910 R. and H. Green was amalgamated with Silley Weir and Co, as R. and H. Green and Silley Weir, with premises at the Royal Albert dry docks.
1912 Acquired Browns Dry Dock and Engineering Co[1]
1918 R. H. Green and Silley Weir took over Cox and Co of Falmouth
1919 Acquired Falmouth Docks Co[2]
1937 Having had a close association with R H Green and Silley Weir for some years, it was decided to change the name of Cox and Co (Engineers) to Silley Cox and Co[3]
1960s Green and Silley Weir still had 8,000 employees in the 1960s.
1961 Dry dock proprietors, ship, boiler and marine engine repairers and tanker cleaning. 3,000 employees.
1975 As the ship-repair arm of P&O interested in the possession of a dry-dock, was identified as a firm to be nationalised[4]
1977 Nationalised to become part of the Government-owned River Thames Shiprepairers
1980 Finally closed
- The National Maritime Museum has a photograph of a sign that reads: "R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd., London Silley, Cox & Co. Ltd. Falmouth"
See Also
Sources of Information
- L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992)