Interior View showing flywheel and valve gear of Douglas and Grant Tandem Compound Engine

Description Interior View showing flywheel and valve gear of Douglas and Grant Tandem Compound Engine

Date 7/5/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 699482

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Garie Works (Mill), Kirriemuir, Angus This mill was founded in 1868 by the Wilkie family to weave jute fabric for sacking and bagging, presumably using yarn spun in Dundee, which was the centre of the jute trade. The mill was originally steam-powered, and there were still three steam engines in it in 1969. This shows a tandem compound drop-valve engine made by Douglas and Grant of Kirkcaldy in 1915. The grooved flywheel with its rope drive to the mill is on the left, and to the right are the shaft and rods operating the drop valves controlling the admission and exhaust of steam to and from the cylinders. This engine was disused in 1969, but had been kept as a standby. It was scrapped in about 1970. The other steam engines were much smaller. The mill continued to make jute cloth until the 1990s, but has now closed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/28/5

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699482

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