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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The National Archives )〕 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. 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, and the 1879 swing bridges over the Royal Albert Dock. The company was wound up in 1893 and in 1895 Baillie was declared bankrupt. Joseph Westwood continued in business at Napier Yard as Joseph Westwood and Co.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Grace's Guide )〕 There is a large monument to him in Tower Hamlets Cemetery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.towerhamletscemetery.org/galleries/monuments/monuments-gallery.html )〕 London Yard was subsequently taken over by Yarrows. ==Notable products== * Tug ''Powerful'', 1857 〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Thames Tugs )〕 * Taptee Bridge (India), 1858 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.londonyard.com/History/LY-History-1.htm )〕 * HMS ''Resistance'', 1861.〔 * HMS ''Valiant'', 1863 (completed under the ownership of Thames Ironworks) * Iron clipper ''Royal Edward'', 1864 〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Illustrated London News )〕 * Tugs ''Robert Bruce'', 1865, ''Scotia'', 1874 〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Thames Tugs )〕 and ''Granville'', 1876 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/NotTyne.html )〕 * Jervois Swing Bridge, Port Adelaide South Australia, 1878 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM90HA_Jervois_Swing_Bridge_Port_Adelaide_South_Australia )〕 * Attock Bridge (then in India) over the Indus, 1880 * Colesberg Bridge over the Orange River (Northern Cape, South Africa), 1885 〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Structurae )〕 * Barkly Bridge over the Vaal River (Northern Cape, South Africa), 1885 * Lansdowne Bridge (then in India) over the Indus, 1887-8 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pakistaniat.com/2007/12/18/lansdowne-bridge-sukkur/ )〕 * Tugs ''Mabel'', 1890 〔 and ''Donovan'', 1890 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westwood, Baillie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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