Perth, 1 Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks, Interior View showing old type electric motor

Description Perth, 1 Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks, Interior View showing old type electric motor

Date 7/10/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 591668

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 a former 'Castle' dynamo, made by JH Holmes and Co of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, probably in about 1900, being used as an electric motor. The motor was running at the time this photograph was taken, driving the lineshaft to the left. 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 H66/92/1D

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