View from WNW showing front of N entrance gate of the former Atlas Railway Engineering Works (later the North British Locomotive Company), Barcaple Street, Glasgow.

Description View from WNW showing front of N entrance gate of the former Atlas Railway Engineering Works (later the North British Locomotive Company), Barcaple Street, Glasgow.

Date 7/4/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 676168

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Atlas Works, Barcaple Street, Glasgow This works was established in 1884 by The Clyde Locomotive Co Ltd, a company set up by Walter Montgomerie Neilson. The company was not a success and the works was sold to Sharp, Stewart & Co Ltd in 1888, who became part of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd in 1903. This shows the road entrance to the works from Barcaple Street, with part of the workshops in the left background. The works had not been used for locomotive building for many years. It was used for munitions manufacture in both World Wars. Declining world demand for locomotives in the later 1950s and 1960s, particularly for steam locomotives, led to the closure of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd in 1964. This works was demolished in the late 1960s, but the company's administration block nearby is now a further education college. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/9/24

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