Too many engine builders

The gas turbine powered 17-knot whalecatcher ‘Robert W Vinke’ on sea trials

How things change. The December 1960 issue of ‘The Motor Ship’ responded to a UK government proposal that the country’s diverse shipbuilding industry be reorganised into larger groups by suggesting that too many companies built marine engines.

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