Interior View showing 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set with part of 150 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set in foreground

Description Interior View showing 250 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set with part of 150 kw Belliss and Morcom and Bruce Peebles alternator set in foreground

Date 8/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 712925

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glue & Gelatine Manufacturer, J & G Cox Ltd, Gorgie Mills (Gorgie Glue Works), Gorgie Road, Edinburgh This works was probably founded in about 1900 by J & G Cox Ltd and made crystal gelatine and animal glue from hides. These were treated with lime, then with hydrochloric acid, and finally boiled to extract soluble proteins. The protein solution was concentrated in a vacuum in an evaporator. This shows part of the electric generating station in the works, which had three alternators, by Bruce, Peebles & Co Ltd, Edinburgh, driven by high-speed steam engines by Belliss and Morcom Ltd, Birmingham. This is the middle-sized, 250 kilowatt set. The exhaust steam was used in the glue evaporators. The works was also known as Gorgie Mills. Latterly it was owned by Bryant & May, match manufacturers, who used the glue as a component of their match heads. Owing to declining demand for matches, the company pulled out of Scotland in 1969. This factory was demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/53/35

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