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General view from NW showing NNE front (Hamilton Street front) of works
SC 685347
Description General view from NW showing NNE front (Hamilton Street front) of works
Date 23/4/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685347
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Rosehill Works, No 491 Aitkenhead Road, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1888 by the Scotch & Irish Oxygen Co Ltd to isolate oxygen from the air by Brin's process, devised in 1881, which used oxides of barium to capture, and then release, atmospheric oxygen. This was supplanted by Linde's process in which air is liquefied, then fractionally distilled. This shows the frontage of the works to Hamilton Street, with the offices on Aitkenhead Road on the right. The works covered a large area behind this frontage. By 1968 the works was preparing a full range of air gases in liquid and gaseous form for industrial and medical use. The owning company had for many years been the British Oxygen Co Ltd. The Glasgow works was moved in the 1970s to a new factory on the site of the former Govan Iron Works. The Aitkenhead Road works has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/2/23
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