Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Proposed Super-Shipyard at Hunterston

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 30th July 1971

SUPER-YARD PROPOSED

Two leading Scottish industrialists have recently advocated creating a super shipyard at Hunterston if the proposed multi-million-pound steel complex is given the go-ahead.

This week Mr. Robert Robertson, chairman of the Hutchison Engineering Group, revealed his plans in a national newspaper report.

Earlier Mr Hugh Stenhouse, chairman of Stenhouse Holdings, had put forward this idea in a Face-to-Face interview on STV.

Both suggested the super yard as an alternative to continued building on the upper reaches of the river.