Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View looking W showing heavy machine shop (taken from access ladder to 25 ton Smith-Keighley over-head crane)

Description Paisley, MacDowall Street, Caledonia Engineering Works, Interior View looking W showing heavy machine shop (taken from access ladder to 25 ton Smith-Keighley over-head crane)

Date 21/10/1982

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

Catalogue Number SC 574250

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 the heavy machine shop, with a large lathe on the right, and the large Loudon planing machine at the far end. The brick-arched construction of this shop suggests that this is a part of the original 1868 works. 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 H82/12/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/574250

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