View from SW showing WNW front of machine works with part of works in foreground

Description View from SW showing WNW front of machine works with part of works in foreground

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733547

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Acme Machine Works, Nos 2-8 Orr Place, Glasgow This works was built in 1885 for the Acme Machine Co, founded in Bain Square by Peter Burt. In 1888 the firm was making a wide variety of household equipment, including perambulators, and gas-engine-driven mincing machines for butchers. This shows the frontage of the works to Orr Street, from the south-west. The 1885 block is the striped red and white brick building in the centre, and on the right is an extension built between the wars. The 1885 building must have been the largest light engineering works in Glasgow when it was built. The Acme company's most successful product was the Acme wringer, a hand-turned device with a pair of rubber rollers used to remove water from household washing before hanging it up to dry. Electric washing machines killed this trade. The 1885 works was in the 1960s a macaroni factory for James Marshall and Co. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/30/21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733547

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap