Interior View showing drive to hoist
SC 710177
Description Interior View showing drive to hoist
Date 7/5/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710177
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 the mechanism of the belt-drive to a hoist for transferring material from one floor to another in the mill. The drive was out of use, for it had been superseded by drive from an electric motor. The survival of such a mechanism was very rare by the late 1960s. This drive was a relic of the period before electricity was readily available, and when a steam engine or engines were used to drive all the machinery in a mill, a process involving the use of extensive lineshafting. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/29/1
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