Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View of boiler shop looking NW showing furnace plates and box table to right and hydraulic accumulator in background with 2 overhead cr ...

Description Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View of boiler shop looking NW showing furnace plates and box table to right and hydraulic accumulator in background with 2 overhead cranes above (5 ton crane on left and 15 ton crane on right)

Date 21/10/1982

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

Catalogue Number SC 574207

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 in the centre perforated cast iron plates to which pegs could be fitted to form a template for bending hot steel section into curves. To the rear is a hydraulic accumulator, which stored water under pressure to operate hydraulic machinery. 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 H82/10/10

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/574207

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