E. Hanson & Co.

MESSRS. E. HANSON & Co., Ship Repairers, 92, Lancefield Street, Glasgow.

    Once a vessel is launched from the Clyde or other yards, the shipbuilders have done with it, but a ship or steamer, at various stages of her subsequent career, requires, just like residential property, to be overhauled, renovated, and, from a possibly dilapidated condition, converted once more into a thing of beauty. The business of ship repairing and renovating, therefore, is quite as important in its way as that of shipbuilding, and it is one implying a diversity of industries of which, probably, the average landsman has little or no conception. The depreciation of ship property, due either to natural wear and tear, to stress of weather, or to accident, is necessarily considerable ; but a skilled, practical, and intelligent firm will soon make such alterations in the appearance of a vessel that her owners have perfect reason to be satisfied with the improvements wrought.

    To this very important business — a business necessarily, of the utmost consequence at a great maritime port — the firm of Messrs. E. Hanson & Co., of 92, Lancefield Street, Glasgow, are devoted. This firm carry on operations upon an exceptionally large scale, a fact which will be readily understood when it is stated that they have in their employ something like 100 hands. When one reflects upon what this means he will realise that, in the course of a year, the number of vessels manipulated by the firm must be very considerable indeed. It should be explained, however, that, in addition to executing all kinds of repairs in ships, including scraping, painting, carpenter work, iron work, and the provision of masts, the firm under notice are also boat builders with a flourishing connection. Specialities of theirs in this respect are the building of lifeboats and jolly-boats. At present they are devoting particular attention to the construction of patent collapsible lifeboats, of the kind known as Henderson’s Patent, for steamers.

    This, as may be supposed, is a very exacting class of work, for it must be in accordance with the most recent scientific principles, and the builders who not only retain the footing they have gained in the trade but improve their position must intelligently adopt all the latest modifications and improvements suggested by experts.  Messrs. E. Hanson & Co. have consistently shown themselves to be thoroughly alive to all such requirements, and, consequently, they have gained a wide reputation for the finest quality of work. Their connection with shipowners, it goes without saying, is an extensive one, and in supplement to this it may be mentioned that Messrs. E. Hanson & Co. have a practical monopoly of the work of repairing Scandinavian vessels.

    The business carried on by Messrs. E. Hanson & Co. at the Queen’s Dock Repairing Works, Lancefield Street, Glasgow, is an old-established one, but Mr. Edward Hanson, the present principal, only succeeded to it five years ago. Under his management it has made rapid progress, and is now an exceptionally flourishing concern. Of course, a very large proportion of the firm’s employees are regularly engaged at the Graving Docks, but at the Queen’s Dock Repairing Works, which are exceedingly extensive, there are various well-appointed workshops, including smithy, boat-builders’ shop, joiners’ shop, paint shop, and spar sheds ; also a yard and sawmills. To control so important a concern, with its aggregation of diverse trades, implies considerable skill, enterprise, and ability on the part of the responsible head, but Mr. Hanson has proved himself to be a thorough man of business well able to cope with every exigence. The firm’s telephone number is 3646.

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