Glasgow, Shearer Street, Riverside Mills, Interior View showing part of rank engine

Description Glasgow, Shearer Street, Riverside Mills, Interior View showing part of rank engine

Date 1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 610194

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Riverside Mills, Shearer Street, Glasgow This complex was built in about 1870 as general stores, and converted into mills in 1910 for the Riverside Milling Co, one of the two warehouses being used as the mills, and the other as stores. A block of concrete silos was added in 1914. This shows the valve-operating mechanism of one of the three cylinders. The Corliss valves, in the cylinder block, rotate to allow steam to flow into or out of the cylinder. The discs driving the valves can be made to oscillate to different extents, to give maximum efficiency and control of speeds. This was the last large steam engine in a Glasgow industrial building. It was demolished with the mill it drove after a fire in the warehouse block in 1968. The engine was built by Marsdens of Heckmondyke, in Yorkshire. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/395/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/610194

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