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Westwood, Baillie and Co was a Victorian engineering and shipbuilding company based at London Yard in Cubitt Town, London.

The company was set up in 1856 by Robert Baillie and Joseph Westwood, previously managers of Ditchburn and Mares shipyard.[1]

Partly as a result of a fall in demand due to the financial crisis of 1866, a period of financial stress and reorganisation resulted in Westwood and Baillie acting as managers for the London Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Company Ltd, until they regained control in 1872.[2]

For much of its life the company produced iron and steel work for bridges. In 1887 the company made the girders for the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus River, then the longest rigid girder bridge in the world. Work on a more modest scale included a railway footbridge that can still be seen at Romford railway station,[3] and the 1879 swing bridges over the Royal Albert Dock. The company also contributed towards the Attock Khurd Bridge, built in 1880, between what's now called Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province and Pakistani Punjab. It's still in a great ship and is a major attraction for tourists and history lovers.

The company was wound up in 1893 and in 1895 Baillie was declared bankrupt.[4] Joseph Westwood continued in business at Napier Yard as Joseph Westwood and Co.[5] There is a large monument to him in Tower Hamlets Cemetery.[6]

London Yard was subsequently taken over by Yarrows.

Notable products

  • Tug Powerful, 1857 [7]
  • Taptee Bridge (India), 1858 [8]
  • HMS Resistance, 1861.[8]
  • HMS Valiant, 1863 (completed under the ownership of Thames Ironworks) [9]
  • Iron clipper Royal Edward, 1864 [10]
  • Tugs Robert Bruce, 1865, Scotia, 1874 [11] and Granville, 1876 [12]
  • Jervois Swing Bridge, Port Adelaide South Australia, 1878 [13]
  • Attock Bridge (then in India) over the Indus, 1880 [14]
  • Colesberg Bridge over the Orange River (Northern Cape, South Africa), 1885 [15]
  • Barkly Bridge over the Vaal River (Northern Cape, South Africa), 1885
  • Colenso Bridge over the Tugela River, Colony of Natal, South Africa, 1879
  • Lansdowne Bridge (then in India) over the Indus, 1887-8 [16]
  • Motueka River (Kohatu) Bridge (Tasman District, New Zealand) 1888
  • Puente ferroviario Birris over the Birris River (Paraíso Cartago, Costa Rica), 1889
  • Tugs Mabel, 1890 [7] and Donovan, 1890 [17]

External links

  • Pictures of Old Attock Bridge
  • Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur
  • [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpmarks/4799109156/ Name plate on footbridge, Romford]
  • Barkly West Bridge

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives Miscellaneous Business Records |publisher=The National Archives|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=092-bmis&cid=-1#-1|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=Cubitt Town: Riverside area: from Cubitt Town Pier to the Graving Docks|work=Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs|year=1994|pages=532–539|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46530#s4|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=GLIAS rail tour|work=GLIAS news|date=Dec 1995|publisher=Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society|url=http://www.glias.org.uk/news/161news.htm|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
4. ^{{London Gazette |date=29 January 1895 |issue=26593 |page=615 }}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Joseph Westwood and Co|work=Grace's Guide|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Joseph_Westwood_and_Co|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Gallery|url=http://www.towerhamletscemetery.org/galleries/monuments/monuments-gallery.html|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
7. ^1 {{cite web|title=Thames Tugs|work=Thames Tugs|url=http://www.thamestugs.co.uk/EARLY-TUG-NAMES-L-P.php|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
8. ^1 {{cite web |title=History of London Yard|url=http://www.londonyard.com/History/LY-History-1.htm|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
9. ^{{cite book |last=Ballard|first=G. A., Admiral |year=1980|title=The Black Battlefleet |location=Annapolis, MD |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=0-87021-924-3}}
10. ^{{cite web |title=Ships launched 1863-64|work=Illustrated London News|url=http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/ilnships1863_1864.htm}}
11. ^{{cite web |title=William Watkins Limited Fleet List|work=Thames Tugs|url=http://www.thamestugs.co.uk/RENOWN---SIMLA.php|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
12. ^{{cite web |title=A history of tugs on the River Tyne|url=http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/NotTyne.html|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
13. ^{{cite web |title=Jervois Swing Bridge |url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM90HA_Jervois_Swing_Bridge_Port_Adelaide_South_Australia|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
14. ^{{cite web |title=INDIA—THE ATTOCK BRIDGE |date=21 June 1880 |work=Hansard|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1880/jun/21/india-the-attock-bridge|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
15. ^{{cite web |title=Westwood Baillie Co.|work=Structurae|url=http://en.structurae.de/firms/data/index.cfm?id=f002626|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
16. ^{{cite web|title=Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur|url=http://pakistaniat.com/2007/12/18/lansdowne-bridge-sukkur/|accessdate=12 Aug 2011}}
17. ^{{cite web |title=London Lighterage Tugs |url=http://www.lighteragetugs.co.uk/ALDER---COVINGTON.php}}
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