Descriptive Medium
Watercolour and pencil heightened with white on paper
Image Licence
CC BY 4.0
Image Credit
National Galleries of Scotland
Location
Elswick Ordnance Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Country
England
Tags
Category
Industries & Professions
TWW Comment
In 1847, the engineer William George Armstrong founded the Elswick works at Newcastle, to produce hydraulic machinery, cranes and bridges, soon to be followed by artillery, notably the Armstrong breech-loading gun, with which the British Army was re-equipped after the Crimean War. In 1855 he set up the Elswick Ordnance Company to separate his arms business from his other businesses. Closed in 2013.
