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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Millen Brothers

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Shipbuilders and steelwork contractors, Saucel Iron Works, Paisley

1905 Business established in Glasgow by John White Millen and his brother A Hood Millen

1919 The business was transferred to the Saucel site in Paisley, which had previously housed a brewery. The site operated as a dry-land shipyard, building light draft vessels, barges and pontoons for shipment and re-erection, as well as steel tanks and chimneys

1940 Incorporated as Millen Brothers Limited

1968 The company ceased trading and went into voluntary liquidation the following year

1977 The company was finally dissolved