View from W showing SSW front and part of WNW front of S block

Description View from W showing SSW front and part of WNW front of S block

Date 13/5/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646109

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 southernmost section of the main part of the works. This block was built in 1894 as stores and drawing office, to designs by J U Macauslan, engineer. To the right is the frontage to Lancefield Quay, and to the left part of the Elliot Street façade. 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 H35/65/12/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646109

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