General view from WNW showing SW front
SC 685357
Description General view from WNW showing SW front
Date 23/4/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685357
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Sentinel Works, Nos 63-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire This works was built from 1903-14 for Alley & McLellan Ltd, who had been founded in Polmadie Road in about 1880. The firm made air compressors, valves, marine auxiliaries and shallow-draught ships, which were dismantled for shipment. This shows the frontage of the works to Jessie Street, from the south-west. The four-storeyed building on the left was designed by Archibald Leitch, architect, as offices and pattern shop, and built in 1903. It was the first large reinforced concrete building in Glasgow. This works became famous as the place where the Sentinel steam lorry was developed in 1904-6, and where it was made until a works was established in 1916-17 at Shrewsbury specifically to make these vehicles. The parent firm was taken over by Beardmores, and made air compressors until the early 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/2/33
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