There are four giant cantilever cranes left on the Clyde – the Finnieston, Barclay Curle, John Brown, and this one – the James Watt dock in Greenock. The latter three were all made by Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd. – this is a picture of the James Watt crane from a 1927 Arrols catalogue:
And this is the crane now:
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