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Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of compound cylinder Belliss and Morcom high speed engine with Rees Roturbo generator
SC 606366
Description Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of compound cylinder Belliss and Morcom high speed engine with Rees Roturbo generator
Date 4/3/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 606366
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Netherplace Bleachworks, Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire This was the last of the many rural textile finishing works established in east Renfrewshire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1968 it belonged to Wallace & Co (Netherplace) Ltd, and was engaged in 'customer' finishing of fabrics from a wide range of sources. This shows part of the works' power station, which used four high-speed steam engines to generate electricity for use in the works. The exhaust steam was used elsewhere in the works. These were the two smallest generating sets, with Belliss & Morcom engines and Rees Rototurbo generators. This power station was dismantled in 1970. One of the engines was preserved, and is now in a museum in Dalmellington in Ayrshire. The works no longer bleaches, but is the Scottish base for Coats Viyella. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/427/1D
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/606366
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