Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View of boiler shop looking NW showing Thomas Shanks and Company Johnstone plate edge planing machine (drive motor and beths on right h ...

Description Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View of boiler shop looking NW showing Thomas Shanks and Company Johnstone plate edge planing machine (drive motor and beths on right hand side of machine) with 2 ton jib crane above

Date 21/10/1982

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 574163

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonia Engineering Works, McDowall Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire (Renfrewshire council area) This was a general engineering works founded in 1868 by AF Craig. It incorporated a foundry and boiler works, and developed various specialities, including plant for the shale-oil and petroleum industries, sugar machinery, and carpet looms. This view shows a plate-edge planing machine made by Thomas Shanks and Co, Johnstone. This machine is belt-driven, from a motor to the right, and has its own wall-mounted crane for handling work. It prepared plate edges for welding. The works closed in 1982, and has since been dismantled. It was the last large engineering works in Paisley. It contained a number of Scottish-made tools, some of which have been preserved at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H82/7/8

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/574163

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