Perth, 1 Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks, Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom turbine
SC 591665
Description Perth, 1 Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks, Interior View showing Belliss and Morcom turbine
Date 7/10/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 591665
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pullar's Dyeworks, 1 Mill Street, Perth (Perth and Kinross council area) Robert Pullar's Perth Dyeworks was the largest works of its kind in 19th century Scotland. It came to offer a service to domestic customers which included laundry, dyeing of made up clothing and carpets, dry cleaning and carpet beating. This view shows part of the works power station, with a Belliss and Morcom steam-turbine generating set, producing direct-current electricity for the old motors in the works. The exhaust steam from this turbine was used elsewhere in the works. The centralised service offered by Pullars, who had branches in many parts of Scotland, all sending orders to Perth, fell out of favour from the 1960s, and the works closed in the 1980s. It is now being converted into local government offices. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/92/2B
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