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This is an interesting and useful presentation but is seriously incomplete. Most obviously missing from the companies that initially formed British Shipbuilders are the Wear yards (Sunderland Shipbuilders and Austin & Pickersgill), Appledore Shipbuilders, Robb-Caledon (Leith and Dundee), Clelands & Goole, Brooke marine (Lowestoft) and Hall Russell (Aberdeen) - then there were a string of other shiprepair companies operating on the Thames, Southampton, Falmouth and maybe elsewhere - and at least two other heavy diesel manufacturers (Kincaid, and another whose name escapes me for the moment).

I don't have the detailed timings of the closures and disposals of these to hand, but could help reconstruct them.

Finally, although I suspect that the dotted line is meant to indicate that Harland & Wolff was not part of British Shipbuilders, firstly it probably ought to say so, and secondly there is no logic in its change of colour in 1977 as it was already in Government ownership, as indeed were Cammell Laird, Sunderland/Appledore Shipbuilders and Govan. Davidships (talk) 12:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)