View from NW showing NNE front

Description View from NW showing NNE front

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733548

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 1885 works to Orr Place from the north-west. The striped red and white brick facing was probably intended to give prominence to the business. This building was one of the largest light engineering works in Glasgow when it was constructed. 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 H35/70/30/22

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap