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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Engineering companies of Scotland, Ironworks and steelworks in Scotland, Shipbuilding companies of Scotland, Scottish Aviation, John Brown & Company, Alexander Stephen and Sons, Yarrow Shipbuilders, William Beardmore and Company, North British Locomotive Company, Saracen Foundry, Arrol-Johnston, Stewarts & Lloyds, Dubs and Company, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Silicon Glen, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, Carron Company, Henry Robb, Hall, Russell & Company, Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Ravenscraig steelworks, Coats PLC, Lithgows, William Denny and Brothers, Argyll, Pringle of Scotland, Weir Group, MacCrindle Shipbuilding Ltd, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Clyde Locomotive Company, British Polar Engines, Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Walter Alexander Coachbuilders, Beardmore Halford Pullinger, Ferguson Shipbuilders, Westclox Scotland, Kelvin Diesels, Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd., Govan Shipbuilders, Tannoy, Lugar, East Ayrshire, Charles Connell and Company, Macniven and Cameron, Scott Lithgow, William Hamilton and Company, A. & J. Inglis, Wilsontown Ironworks, Hanna, Donald & Wilson, British Polythene Industries, Caird & Company, Greenock Dockyard Company, Lobnitz, John Letters, Gourlay Brothers Ship Builders of Dundee, Scotstoun Marine Ltd, Dunlop Bremner & Company. Excerpt: John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a pre-eminent Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm, responsible for building many notable and world-famous ships, such as the RMS Lusitania, the HMS Hood, the HMS Repulse, the RMS Queen Mary, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, and the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (often referred to as the QE2). At their height, from 1900 to the 1950s, they were one of the most highly regarded, and internationally famous, shipbuilding companies in the world. How...