Detail of Lowden generator
AN 627
Description Detail of Lowden generator
Date 2/1967
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AN 627
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 356499
Scope and Content Detail of generator, South Dudhope Jute Works, Smellies Lane, Dundee, Tayside A royal burgh since c.1191, Dundee was famous for the 'three J's': journalism (D C Thomson, publishers of The Beano and The Dandy); jam (Keillers was a household name for marmalade); and jute, which had its heyday from the 19th to the late 20th century. This is a generator, made by Lowdon Brothers & Company of Dundee, which supplied the electricity for the jute works of Alexander Henderson & Sons. It was powered by a steam engine made by James Carmichael & Company of Dundee in 1899. The steam engine also worked 154 looms and four dressing machines in the jute works. It was dismantled for scrap in 1967. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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