Renton, Dalquhurn Printworks/Leval Engineering View of sheet metal cutter
SC 455236
Description Renton, Dalquhurn Printworks/Leval Engineering View of sheet metal cutter
Date 8/9/1975
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 455236
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leval Engineering, Dalquhurn, Renton, Dunbartonshire This small sheet-metal-working works was in part of the Dalquhurn Printworks, founded in 1715 as a bleachworks, and developed as a calico printing works during the 19th century. It closed in 1937, was used by the War Dept 1939-45 and then sublet. This view shows a hand-operated tool for cutting sheet metal, mounted in a leg vice, a common device for holding workpieces in fitting shops. Leval Engineering was being wound up as a concern in 1975, and its equipment sold. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H75/69/13
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