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Rh engines, traction engines and road locomotives, steam tractors and steam wagons, besides a vast amount of machinery for the equipment of mines. Over 25,000 engines have been manufactured by this company, and are at work in all parts of the world.

Coincident with the progress of Grimsby as a fishing centre, there have grown up in the town various complementary industries. Such, for instance, has been the establishment of the firm of marine engineers and ship repairers, trading under the style of the Grimsby Engineering Company Limited. Founded at the outset to meet the demands of the fishing trade, the works in the Fish Dock Road have kept pace with the extension of those demands. In the reclassification of steam trawlers the firm has met with exceptional success, and on several occasions they have reconstructed ships' engines and boilers; in 1903 their work along these lines included such reconstruction of three trawlers for one firm alone. These vessels, twelve years old, were so completely modernized in their passage through the company's workshops that they may be said to have been transformed into new boats. During the winter months, when outside work becomes more or less slack, the firm is engaged in the manufacture of auxiliary machinery for steam trawlers, such as powerful double-barrelled steam winches, stearing gears, donkey engines and pumps, line haulers and windlasses. In the four different departments into which the works are divided constant employment is found for about 100 hands. 