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Glasgow, 116 James Street, Lithographic Prinworks View from NE showing corner of James Street and Landressy Street
SC 589931
Description Glasgow, 116 James Street, Lithographic Prinworks View from NE showing corner of James Street and Landressy Street
Date 14/2/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 589931
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Sewing Machine Factory, No 116 James Street, Glasgow Built c.1870, this was the Singer Manufacturing Co's first Scottish factory. Prior to its construction, machines of the Singer type were made in Glasgow by R E Simpson & Co. In 1872 this works produced nearly 55,000 machines. This shows the works from the north-east. It is ashlar-fronted, and detailed like a tenement of the period. It appears to have been designed to be extended to the right. The demand for Singer machines grew so rapidly that a much larger new works was built at Clydebank in the mid-1880s, and this one abandoned. Some of the machines from the Bridgeton works were still used in the Clydebank works until it closed in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/152/2D
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