Hi engine would be stripped right down to bedplate,crankshaft,cylinders,pistons,etc ECT then transported in UK by pickford low loaders with police escort to shipyard where it would be installed in revervse into ship (after launch) then built up with all auxiliary engine room equipment started at quayyside then put though extensive tests on sea trials until ship owners,engine builders,and Lloyds where all happy.Most engines like in photo were built under licence as particular engine looks like a Sulzer engine Swiss company.Very limited to lifting by crane size at fitting out quays most limited to about 40tons .Once took a ship just lanched built in half so aft end towed from Sunderland to Glasgow around the top of Scotland then complete engine lifted in with the famous hammer head crane (now a museum piece of Glascow ) which had a 100ton lift then towed back to River Tyne and joined together with other half of bulk carrier ship then sea trials .Good old days with plenty of pay and job satisfaction I am just gone 65 this would no happen now all the skill lost or scattered ie. Germany,Taiwan,Japan.Doxford engines where designed and built in Sunderland but a lot of ship owners favoring Sulzer or Man engines as a lot of different countries built these under licence.A Doxford engine a R and D project left behind when everything closed 1980s(thank you Maggie Thatcher and EU)is hopefully going to be built in Beamish museum in near future and hopefully I can get involved as a volunteer to put together.
