[BITList] Glasgow's last shipyard Ferguson Shipbuilders settoclose | UK news | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

I wonder if the yard is built on land suitable for Housing ?   With a riverside view ?

Mike
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On 19 Aug 2014, at 07:42, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>  
> I had a talk with a friend last night - he was with Fergusons right to the end. What closed wasn't a shipyard, but the rump of a shipyard. The remaining DO staff totalled 3 engineers, led  by a loftsman (!).  When I last worked there (I was with them 3 times) the DO staff totalled over 12. And the administrators have started removing stuff from the yard - the engine from a yard transport vehicle was taken out and not seen again.  They were stopped by the sleleton staff from dismantling jigs made for the last newbuilding - burning them for easier removal. The ship models, none of them for ships built by the recent owners, were taken away by these owners.  The owners weren't shipbuilders - they bought the yard as an investment.
>  
> Already the whole affair is being viewed through independence referendum spectacles. We read strident Union demands for action by the (Scottish) Government (or else) from people who couldn't pump up a tyre without a handbook. That the closure was imminent must have been obvious to the goverment, they shout. What they mean by action, these people are unable to say - slogans say nothing helpful. The staff in Fergusons may have had suspicions, but not a clue about any proposed closure until the day the yard closed.
>  
> Sad.
>  
> Hugh.
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