View from WNW showing large ornamental doorway of high single storey block
SC 646104
Description View from WNW showing large ornamental doorway of high single storey block
Date 13/5/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 646104
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Engineering works, Nos 153-239 Elliot Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1867 by David Rowan, marine engineer and boiler maker, and subsequently greatly extended. The firm built a wide range of steam reciprocating, steam turbine and diesel propulsion machinery, mainly for those shipbuilders which did not have their own engine works. This shows the large sliding doors of the section of works built in 1896-7, with a low-relief bust of Queen Victoria above, placed to mark her diamond jubilee in 1897. The size of the doorway indicates the scale of the engines and boilers being built in the works at that time. David Rowan & Co Ltd and the marine engineering business of the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd were amalgamated, with Government support, in the early 1960s. This works was closed, and operations concentrated at Fairfield. The Rowan works has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/12/20
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