Does anyone recall Rutherfords Shipping company in Birkenhead? My mother used to be a chaffeuse for them. She drove their MG VA 1 1/2 litre. She always wanted to fin d out what happened to it but loads of searches brouight nothing.

I remember from my youth older men i worked with talking about Rutherfords ship repair and boat builders, found this.

http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/rutherford.htm

Alexander Rutherford Sr of Perth, Scotland. Born 24 May 1838. Died 15 September 1916. Established A.Rutherford and Co Ship Repairers and Boatbuilders in Birkenhead. A prominent freemason. Married Esther Hannah Perry (born 17 December 1843, died 2 July 1917 aged 74).

Rutherfords Boat Builders {Neptune Yard}Birkenhead. built the ROYAL BARGE that the present queen used while sailing up the river Thames during her corination

thanks folks

A Rutherford and Co of Neptune Works, Bridge Street, Birkenhead

•1853 Company founded.
•1914 Shipbuilders and Repairers, Engineers, Boilermakers, Steam Yacht and Boat Builders, Ship and Yacht Outfitters. Specialities: Light Draft Steam and Motor Vessels of all kinds, all descriptions of small craft, ship repairs of all kinds. [1]
•1921 Became private company.
•1961 Ship repairers and boiler makers. 350 employees. [2]

Addvert taken from the SHIPOWNERS AND CAPTAINS 'BLUE PIGEON 1893

A classy advert from 1951

My old man started his apprenticeship with them before the war. When he returned I think they had folded but they gave him proof of apprenticesip so he could finish his training as a Shipwright with Cammell Lairds