William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak empl
Beardmore advertisement Brasseys 1923
Beardmore Mk7 Paramount taxi, 4-door model
Beardmore 12/30 Tourer, 1925
British Enterprise, built by Beardmore in 1921
HMS Agamemnon was one of two Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last pre-dreadnought battleship to be built, follo
William Beardmore and Company
…half of the shares were bought by Vickers. Armstrong Whitworth also considered investing but decided against it due to high debt load of the company. HMS Agamemnon was the new Dalmuir yard's first order to complete, in 1906. This work was facilitated by the construction of the Arrol Gantry, a large steel framework…
Agamemnon has her main guns replaced at Malta in May–June 1915
Agamemnon fires her 9.2-inch guns at Ottoman Turkish forts at Sedd el Bahr on 4 March 1915
Agamemnon in 1924–25 during her service as a target ship