Glasgow, 2-8 Orr Place, Acme Machine Works View from NNW showing NNE front

Description Glasgow, 2-8 Orr Place, Acme Machine Works View from NNW showing NNE front

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 618114

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Acme Machine Works, Nos 2-8 Orr Place, Glasgow This works was built in 1885 for the Acme Machine Co, a business founded in 1881 in Bain Square by Peter Burt. In 1888 the firm was making a wide variety of household equipment, including perambulators (prams), and, for butchers, a combined gas engine and mincing machine. This shows the works from the north-west, looking along Orr Place. It extended even further along Orr Street, and was one of the largest light engineering factories in Glasgow when it was built. The red and white brickwork is typical of the period. The Acme company's most successful product was the Acme wringer, used to remove as much water as possible from newly-washed clothes before hanging them up to dry. The invention of the electric washing machine killed this business. The works was occupied in the 1960s by James Marshall & Co, macaroni makers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/547/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/618114

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