Where can I find out about Anderson Grice company of Carnoustie Scotland?
Anderson-Grice Co. Ltd was founded by George Anderson of Arbroath. Anderson had previously operated from the Arbroath Foundry in Dickfield Street, Arbroath. He was an excellent engineer and familiar with the needs of the quarry industry. His foundry specialised in cranes, stone cutting and planing machinery. By 1886 the foundry had out grown the Dickfield Street premises and larger ones were sought. In around 1886, Anderson began to relocate the business to the neighbouring town of Carnoustie where the former Taymouth Linen Works was vacant. The move was completed by 1898. Arthur Grice became a partner in the company in 1902 to assist the ageing George Anderson. Four years later he introduced the company to a new venture - car manufacturing. Between 1906 and 1910 they built a small number of cars. The Dalhousie cars never achieved fullscale production. The main products of the company continued to be cutting machinery. They earned a worldwide reputation for their skills. The poster advertises some of the uses to which Anderson-Grice products were put to use. These included salvaging German battleships from Scappa flow and building many harbour facilities in Britain and abroad. Carnoustie Library holds extensive cuttings and research on the firm. Anderson-Grice posters are at MS 671 in the Angus Archives.
Is there any future in production engineering?
Thanks for the A2A.This needs to go out there and reach as many people as possible.To be honest, I am extremely disturbed about all my fellow Quorans here writing about how easy the subject is, and how similar it is to mechanical.Let me make this clear.NO. Production Engineering is not an easy subject, and NO, it is not similar to mechanical engineering.Like most people think, its not just about repairing machines and casting, welding and forming. Production Planning is an essential part of any decision making scheme of a middle level manager. Production engineering teaches its students to think in such a way, and not just manual labour like casting.Mechanical engineering is more focused on how stuff works, the science behind it and other things on how to make things better and more efficient. Production is related to how any process can be manufactured, and how it can be optimized. You can see that there are stark differences between them both.I request you people not to spread such false information about production engineering, as the companies have a wrong opinion about us Production Engineers and choose mechanical engineers even for profiles like supply chain management and Operations Strategy- subjects that belong to the core of production engineering.Most companies in India have no idea about what prod is, and if you spread such false information, you are just making lives of engineers like me miserable.To give you an insight, most other departments have 6 subjects a semester, whereas we have 7 subjects. It is NOT easy.To answer your question- I feel that Prod has huge scopes in the market- given that you go in the right path. If you are interested in the manufacturing side, then an MS would be best. On the other hand, Industrial Engineering deals with optimisation of processes and that could be another path that you could take. MBA in operations and scm would be another path.Long story short, a bachelors in prod opens up a lot of avenues. However, direct job after your bachelors might not give you a very high pay- mainly because of the reasons that I have highlighted in this answer.I hope all of you take this small request from my side and all other production engineers in India- without getting offended. This problem is serious, please dont put oil into the fire.
Why are there no car manufacturing plants in Scotland?
THere used to be. A brand new factory was built at Linwood, in Renfrewshire in the 1960’s. It was largely a project by the then Labour Government to create jobs in Scotland. It remains one of the best examples of why Politicians should never interfere in business.From Wikipedia.“The expansion and economy of Linwood from 1961 onwards relied heavily on the Rootes, later Chrysler then Peugeot Talbot car plant, and the associated Pressed Steel Company body parts pressing facility.Construction of the car factory began in 1961 to produce the Hillman Imp, a revolutionary small car which went into production when the factory was opened on 2 May 1963, and was not discontinued until 1976. The factory, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, had the advantage of a direct rail link, which allowed cars to be transported by rail to places all over Britain. The opening and production can be seen in the Rootes Group's 20 minute film. It later produced the Hillman Avenger (later badged as a Chrysler and finally a Talbot) from 1970 and the Imp's successor, the Sunbeam.After Chrysler UK was bought by Peugeot Talbot, a review of the plant and associated models decided to close the Linwood plant in favour of retaining the Ryton plant near Coventry. Linwood was closed in 1981 with most of the factory demolished soon afterwards. The remaining part was demolished in 1996.The closure left mass unemployment. This state of the town was immortalised in the song "Letter from America" by The Proclaimers, the lyrics "Linwood no more" referred to the closure of the car factory.”So Scotland’s memories of Car Manufacture are mostly of a series of failures and takeovers followed by mass unemployment and the dashing of hopes and ambitions for a generation.They probably don’t want to repeat the experience.
What was the last great Scottish invention?
In my own area of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production there have been many inventions and developments from Scottish Companies. Aberdeen is regarded as the center of innovation for a worldwide industry. I know that we are standing on the shoulders of giants but the Scots are still regarded as inovative.
Can anyone help with economics homework?
England can produce 50 scones per hour, while Scotland can produce only 40 scones per hour. Since England can produce more scones, it has the absolute advantage in scones. For the same reason, Scotland has an absolute advantage in sweaters (produce 2 as opposed to 1 for England). For England, the cost of one sweater is 50 scones (it can use its resources to produce either one sweater or 50 scones in an hour). For Scotland, the cost of one sweater is 20 scones (in half an hour, it can use its resources to produce either one sweater or 20 scones). This means that sweaters are cheaper for Scotland to produce, and scones are cheaper for England to produce, based on opportunity costs of production. So Scotland has the comparative advantage in sweaters, and England has the comparative advantage in scones. It they decide to trade, the countries will specialize and produce the goods that they have a comparative advantage in, and trade that good to the other country. So England will produce scones and trade to Scotland, which will produce sweaters and trade to England.
Are there any Italian cutting-edge technology companies of any industry?
Italy has always had and has a strong leadership in many fields of industry throughout the world. From guns to food, from materials to machines. The following is a list of some of the most renown cutting-edge technology leaders in their respective fields. Bear in mind these are not advanced cutting edge start ups (and there are many also of those) but established big leaders which continue to dominate their field thanks to a solid R&D and attention to continuous innovation.Saes Getters - advanced functional materials producers, world wide leaders in getter[1] technologies, almost monopolists in the production of Nitinol[2]Mapei - worldwide leaders in advanced materials for civil engineering and building industries, sealants, special cements and so on.ASG Superconductors - producers of the superconducting coils used at LHCPhase Motion Control - leaders in advanced high precision and high speed electric motors and their applicationsBeretta - world leaders in the production of the most used handguns in police and safety forces around the worldSacmi - leaders in the design, production and installation of the most efficient and fastest and versatile production facilities for ceramic materials in civil industry, compaction presses and packagingFerrero - world leader in the production of chocolate based treats and packaged sweets for the large distribution (who doesn’t know Nutella or Ferrero Rocher?)ST Microelectronics - largest EU producer of semiconductors (that is in reality Italo-french and not strictly only Italian any more)Laboratorio Elettrofisico - best magnetizers and magnetic material properties analyzers worldwideFootnotes[1] Getter - Wikipedia[2] Nickel titanium - Wikipedia