Volume Four - An Era of Change, Uncertainty, Depression & War - The Penarth Dock Engineering Company Limited . . .

The machinery was tested on the 28th February, 1910, and the first vessel docked on the 10th of the following month. The pontoon was formerly inaugurated by the Earl of Plymouth on 14th April, 1910, by docking the "Eastgate" belonging to Messrs. Turnbull Scott & Co.

The Company was kept increasingly busy prior to and during the 1914/1918 war but afterwards, in company with other shiprepairers in the area, were seriously affected by the depression in the nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties.

In 1931 the Great Western Railway, successors to the Taff Vale Railway, took financial control with the late Mr. C. R. Dashwood, C.B.E. and the late Mr. F. R. E. Davis, C.B.E., as Nominee Directors and this position continued until the nationalisation of the railways in 1948

A mid-1930's letterhead for The Penarth Pontoon, Slipway & Ship Repairing Co. Ltd which incorporated Hodges & Co. Ltd. at Barry. [327]