SD1415000 tdw Liberty Replacement Austin & Pickersgill Bartram & Sons Hellenic Shipyards Being a Suite of 4 Brochures in a Rather Elaborate presentation Folder oversize clb cat 8

Yorkshire & London: Gray Design Associates, circa 1970. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [35cm/14inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with caracatures, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Austin & Pickersgill was formed in Sunderland in 1954 by the merger of S.P. Austin & Son Ltd (founded by Samuel Peter Austin in c.1826) and William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd (founded c. 1838). In 1957 a consortium of three companies led by London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. (LOF) took over Austin & Pickersgill. In October 1968 Austin & Pickersgill took over Bartram & Sons Ltd, whose South Dock yard was also in Sunderland.[1] In 1970 London and Overseas Freighters bought out the other members of the consortium to take 100% ownership of Austin & Pickersgill. In 1977 Austin & Pickersgill was nationalised as a member company of British Shipbuilders. In 1986 the Company was merged with Sunderland Shipbuilders Ltd to form North East Shipbuilders Ltd. However both the Southwick and the Doxford Pallion Shipbuilding Yards closed in 1988 following negotiations with the European Commission to reduce shipbuilding capacity in the UK. A&P maximised the competitiveness of its prefabrication process by producing ships to standard designs rather than individual specifications. From 1962 onwards the company offered standard bulk carriers in a range of sizes designated according to tonnage. A&P's most numerous product was another of its standard designs, the SD14 shelter deck cargo ship. During the Second World War, shipyards in the United States had delivered more than 2,700 Liberty ship shelter deck cargo ships. By the 1960s many Liberty ships were reaching the end of their service lives, so in 1965 A&P started to develop a low-cost shelter-deck cargo vessel to replace them. A&P invited other UK shipbuilders to tender for licences to produce SD14's, but by 1966 only Bartram's could meet A&P's requirement to build each ship to a selling price of £915,000. Both Bartram's and A&P built their first SD14's in 1967 and handed them to their new owners in February 1968. A&P's takeover of Bartram's followed in October. In 1967 A&P licensed Hellenic Shipyards Co. of Skaramangas in Greece to build twenty SD14's. In 1971 A&P licensed Companhia Comércio e Navegação to build SD14's at Mauá in Brazil.