The BeardmoreCrane was a giant cantilever crane at the William Beardmore and Company yard. The BeardmoreCrane had two opposite cantilevered jibs, both...
The Finnieston Crane or Stobcross Crane is a disused giant cantilever crane in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is no longer operational, but is retained...
electric cranes. Beardmore eventually sold the company's Govan shipyard to Harland and Wolff in 1912. Other notable warships produced by Beardmores at Dalmuir...
Following the removal of the BeardmoreCrane in the 1970s and the Fairfield Titan in 2007, there are now four giant cantilever cranes on the River Clyde. The...
The Barclay Curle Crane is a disused Titan or giant cantilever crane at the Barclay Curle shipyard at Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland. It was built by Sir...
cantilever crane at BAE Systems' Govan shipyard, and the largest such crane on the River Clyde until it was demolished in 2007. The crane was built by...
The James Watt Dock Crane is a giant cantilever crane situated at Greenock on the River Clyde. It was built in 1917 by Sir William Arrol & Co. It was...
McMurdo Sound, Shackleton had crossed the Great Ice Barrier, discovered the Beardmore Glacier route to the Polar Plateau, and had struck out for the Pole. He...
overhead cranes for the building of the three Olympic-class liners. From 1900 to 1906, Arrol had constructed a shipyard for William Beardmore and Company...
Kevin Beardmore (21 June 1960 – 14 November 2022) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He played...
William Beardmore (later Lord Invernairn), with a roving commission which involved interviewing prospective clients and entertaining Beardmore's business...
the assumption that motors and animals could not ascend the crevassed Beardmore Glacier. Dog expert Cecil Meares was going to Siberia to select the dogs...
Michael Crane (30 September 1952 – 2 July 2022) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at representative...
that the actual latitude may have been 82°11'S (see Crane, pp. 214–215). Preston, pp. 57–79 Crane, p. 253 (map); pp. 294–295 (maps) Fiennes, p. 89 "Erich...
options. In 1906 he was working for the industrial magnate Sir William Beardmore as a public relations officer. According to his biographer Roland Huntford...
Shackleton's group continued southward, discovering and ascending the Beardmore Glacier to the polar plateau, and then marching on to reach their Farthest...
aluminium plant but he was soon recruited as a junior manager at William Beardmore and Company's Parkhead Forge to work on vehicle armour. There, he faced...
Fosters of Lincoln, Armstrong-Whitworth, Coventry Ordnance Works, William Beardmore & Company and Mirrlees, Watson & Co., with the main production being in...
from Vickers-Armstrongs but in earlier times they were made locally at Beardmores in Parkhead. Work was also switched to the manufacture of hydro-electric...
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