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Glenlivet Distillery View from SSW showing old weighing machine outside visitor centre (former maltings)
SC 570237
Description Glenlivet Distillery View from SSW showing old weighing machine outside visitor centre (former maltings)
Date 28/3/1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 570237
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The Glenlivet Distillery, Minmore, Banffshire (Moray council area) This distillery was originally built in 1858 by G and JG Smith to replace their earlier distilleries at Drummin and Delnabo. After a series of changes in ownership it was acquired in 1977 by Seagram of Canada. This view shows a steelyard for weighing casks, displayed outside the visitor centre at the distillery. In use, the cask would have been suspended from one end using rope slings, and weights added to a pan at the other until a balance was achieved. Until accurate metering of liquids was possible, weighing of casks empty, then full, was the only practical way to determine the volume of spirit in a cask. Steelyards were used until more accurate and easy-to-use weighing machines became available. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/22/7
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/570237
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