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William Denny & Brothers Limited
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Aerial view of William Denny & Brothers’ Leven Shipyard c 1932
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A group photograph of Denny Engine Department Patternmakers in 1928
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An engraving of ‘Marion’, the first steamer on Loch Lomond
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The Denny family tree in 1932
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PS ‘Lochlomond’ steaming past Dumbarton Rock
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DENNY DUMBARTON
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View of the Leven Shipyard from the Castle c 1916. Rows of workmen’s dwellings can be seen behind the slipways
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‘Cutty Sark’, pictured at Greenwich
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The engine from PS ‘Leven’ (1823)
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The ornate frontispiece of the Denny Jubilee Book. The Book contains the names of the subscribers to an illuminated address given in celebration of the firm’s Jubilee on 22 December 1894
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A view of two ships on the stocks c 1900. The gentleman in the foreground is possibly Peter Denny (1853-1917)
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Maurice Denny with Lady Gower at launch of ‘Queen of the Channel in 1935. Launches were always a great occasion, as Edward Denny remembered: ‘When the bottle was thrown we got a bit of a splash and my cousin Maurice always had an umbrella at the ready"
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A group of Denny employees at an Engineers’ Dance c 1950.
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Two workmen welding ‘Robert the Bruce’ in 1934.
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Flotilla vessels moored alongside the riverbank. There is a hive of activity as the boats load and unload
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The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank in 1908
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A close-up of a model being towed along the Tank
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Denny Tank employees Hugh Orr and Anthony Browning at work c 1950
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The first Denny-Mumford helicopter – note the pilot sitting in the middle of the apparatus
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The helicopter with J. Pollock Brown in the pilot seat before its first tethered flight on 6th January 1913
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A view of the helicopter in late 1914
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The submarine E 55 under construction in 1915
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HMS ‘Beaver’, - one of the first warships fitted with geared turbines
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Modular Range Stabiliser model - "exterior"
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Modular Range Stabiliser model - "interior"
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A list of the results of the performance of Denny-Brown stabilisers on Cunard’s ‘Media’ in 1952. The results show that the ship’s roll was reduced and Cunard went on to fit Denny-Brown stabilisers on several of their ships
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The prototype hovercraft D1 on the day of its launch in 1961 - Image courtesy of Dr Mike Cooper
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D2-002 during trials on the Gareloch in 1963
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Denny Hovercraft D2-002 pictured entering the Caledonian Canal during its 820 mile voyage to the River Thames in 1963