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The Scott Motor Cultivator Ltd. was listed at 12 North St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh in 1903– [20] 1905–6, [21] 1906–7. [22] Scott's Motor Cultivator was illustrated in a 1908 agricultural book. [23] Scott in 1903 used a chain and sprocket drive to connect a tractor to other devices, an early example of versatility in this area. [24]
He was succeeded by his son William Scott (1722-1769) and another son. In 1765 they built their first square-rigged vessel. William's son John (1752-1837) expanded the shipyard to a major shipbuilding company. [1] The Scott family took over the Greenock Foundry in 1790. In 1791, Scott & Co. built Brunswick, of 600-ton (bm), for the Newfoundland ...
Preserved at Silver Stream Railway Works No 36 of 1887, which went into service in 1888 as NZR D 140. Industrial use 1920-1960. Preserved at Ferrymead Railway [1] Scott Brothers Limited was an engineering firm in Christchurch, New Zealand.
John Colin Scott was born in Haumoana, Hawke’s Bay on 9 June 1924, the third of seven children of Kathleen Hiraani Blake and Charles Hudson Scott, a farmer. His mother and father both had British ancestry, while his father was also a descendant of Te Arawa. John Scott had a typical Hawke's Bay childhood, riding to Haumona School on horseback.
Walter Oliphant was the great grandson of William Oliphant (see family tree) and Angus Ferrier was the son of John Scott Ferrier. The company continued to publish books mainly on a religious theme. It was taken over by the London publishers, Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd. in 1945 and was liquidated voluntarily and without debts on 27 March 1968. [5]
John Lanfear Scott-Scott (22 June 1934 [1] – 12 December 2015 [2]) was a British mechanical and aerospace engineer. After graduating from the University of Birmingham , he joined Armstrong Siddeley Motors in 1955, becoming a hydrodynamicist at their Rocket Department. [ 3 ]
John G. Kincaid & Company was a major British marine engine manufacturer based at the mouth of the River Clyde in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. Its predecessor, Hastie, Kincaid and Donald was founded in 1868 [ 2 ] by John Hastie, John Kincaid and Robert Donald.
Scott was closely connected with the development of the marine steam-engine. At an early date he recognised the economy likely to result from the use of higher steam-pressures, and about 1857 he built the Thetis , of 650 tons, which was fitted with a two-cylinder engine of his own design and with water-tube boilers of the Rowan type, the ...