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

Description View from S 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 710529

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 and 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 from the east. The doorway in the centre is one of two in an addition of 1865, and was designed to accommodate completed boilers, but has been altered to provide workmen's entrances to the time office. 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 H35/69/38/9

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710529

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