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Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977
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The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 nationalised large parts of the UK aerospace and shipbuilding industries and established two corporations, British Aerospace and British Shipbuilders.
The bill was rejected by the House of Lords on three separate occasions. It was possible that the provisions of the Parliament Acts could have been employed to enact it, but the legislation was approved by the House of Lords following concessions by the government.
- Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon (acquired in 1978, merged with Ferguson Shipbuilders in 1981 to form Ferguson-Ailsa)
- Appledore Shipbuilders, Appledore
- Austin & Pickersgill, Sunderland
- Brooke Marine, Lowestoft
- Cammell Laird Shipbuilders, Birkenhead
- Clelands Shipbuilding Company, Wallsend
- Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow (merged with Ailsa in 1981 to form Ferguson-Ailsa)
- Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Company, Goole
- Govan Shipbuilders, Govan
- Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
- Robb Caledon Shipbuilders, (comprising Henry Robb, Leith and Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee)
- Scott Lithgow, Greenock (comprising Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company & Lithgows)
- Smiths Dock Company, Middlesbrough
- Sunderland Shipbuilders, Sunderland (incorporating William Doxford & Sons, Pallion)
- Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Limited , Wallsend (later renamed Swan Hunter) - also incorporating John Readhead and Sons, South Shields and Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Wallsend
- Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group, Barrow in Furness (renamed Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited - VSEL)
- Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston and Portsmouth
- Yarrow Shipbuilders (YSL), Scotstoun
- Barclay Curle and Company, Whiteinch
- George Clark & NEM, Sunderland
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn
- John G. Kincaid & Company, Greenock
Note: Harland and Wolff, Belfast was state-owned but did not form part of British Shipbuilders.
- Official text of the statute as amended and in force today within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database