Stone Manganese Marine
Stone-Manganese Marine, of Birkenhead, joint venture between Stone-Platt Industries and Manganese Bronze and Brass Co to handle all their marine related engineering.
1960 Formation of Stone-Manganese Marine to handle overseas sale of marine products of Manganese Bronze and Brass Co, J. Stone and Co (Propellors), Bulls Metal and Marine, and Steven and Struthers[1].
1968 Recently extended works to make marine propellers up to 36 feet in diameter with a finished weight of 80 tons [2]
1981 Vickers have reached agreement with Stone Platt to acquire the marine engineering business of Stone Manganese Marine. The company will trade under the name of Stone Vickers and will continue to design and manufacture controllable-pitch propellers, bow thrust units ...[3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 29 July 1960
- ↑ The Engineer of 15th March 1968 p438
- ↑ The Scotsman 21 March 1981