View from SE showing ESE front of engineering works with part of boiler works workshop on left

Description View from SE showing ESE front of engineering works with part of boiler works workshop on left

Date 6/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710523

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Boiler (Engine) Works, No 172 Lancefield Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1864 by the London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, as a boiler works. The company had engine works on Anderston Quay and a shipyard in Govan. The business was bought in 1912 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, and this works adapted to make diesel engines. This shows part of the Lancefield Street frontage of the works looking across the site of a large extension to the works built by Harland & Wolff. The building in the centre was built in 1907 by Sir William Arrol & Co to their own designs. On the left is part of the original 1864 works. The London & Glasgow works, with large additions on the east side of Lancefield Street, continued to make large marine diesel engines until 1964 when Harland & Wolff closed down all their Glasgow operations. The buildings seen here were demolished in about 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/38/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710523

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