Interior View showing electric motor, Ediswan type

Description Interior View showing electric motor, Ediswan type

Date 17/6/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685486

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pullar's Dyeworks, No 1 Mill Street, Perth, Perth & Kinross This works was built from 1865 for J Pullar & Sons, who developed a retail dyeing business with branches all over Scotland, feeding into this works, which was the largest of its kind in the country. In the late 19th century they added dry cleaning to their business. This shows a direct current electric motor, running on the works voltage of 110 volts, and driving a carpet brushing machine. The motor was made by Ediswan, and was originally designed to deliver 8-horsepower with a supply voltage of 220 volts. This works had its own power station, with a turbo-generator and standby diesel generators. The motors in use were almost all of some antiquity. The business fell away during the 1960s, and the works closed in the 1970s. After lying empty for many years it was converted into offices in the late 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/3/10

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