Longmorn Distillery, Interior View showing steam engine
SC 519609
Description Longmorn Distillery, Interior View showing steam engine
Date 20/9/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 519609
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Longmorn-Glenlivet Distillery, Morayshire This large distillery was built at the beginning of the whisky boom of the 1890s by the Longmorn-Glenlivet Distillery Co. In 1898 it amalgamated with the nearby newly-built Benriach-Glenlivet Distillery, which however closed in 1900. This view shows a small single-cylinder horizontal steam engine, retained as a standby to power the switchers in the washbacks (fermenting vessels) in a nearby tun room. Switchers are rotating arms which cut off the 'head' during fermentation. Longmorn was built with four stills, and was one of the largest of the 1890s distilleries. It was extended in 1972 and 1978. Since 1970 it has been owned by Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd, now a subsidiary of the Seagram Co Ltd of Canada. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/97/1
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