Company type | Public |
---|---|
Industry | Marine engineering |
Founded | 1832 |
Defunct | 2000 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | Klöckner |
Headquarters | Hartlepool, UK |
Richardsons Westgarth & Company was a leading British shipbuilding and marine engineering business. The Company was based in Hartlepool and was a major employer in the area.
The company was established in 1832 by Thomas Richardson as a marine engineering concern based in Hartlepool under the name of T. Richardson & Sons. [1] In 1900 it merged with Sir C. Furness Westgarth and Company of Middlesbrough and William Allan and Company of Sunderland to form Richardsons Westgarth. [2] As part of the merger Furness Withy, a shipping business, took a controlling interest in the company. [3]
From 1840 to 1857, products included steam locomotives. [4] The Company was at the forefront of the development of steam engines and diesel engines for large ships throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [5] It built engines for many ships including SS Empire Amethyst. In 1927, the company began manufacturing Brown Boveri designed turbo-alternators under licence. [6] It acquired the firm of George Clark in Sunderland in 1938. [2] In 1962 its marine activities were merged with that of Weir Group [7] and it began focussing on engineering for power stations such as Trawsfynydd [8] and Dungeness B. It ceased operations in Hartlepool in 1982. [2]
The Company then diversified into steel processing and was acquired by Klöckner, one of the world's largest steel stockholders, in 2000. [9]
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