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View from N showing WNW front and part of NNE front
SC 733549
Description View from N showing WNW front and part of NNE front
Date 14/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733549
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 frontages of the 1885 works to Orr Place (left) and Orr Street from the north-west. Beyond the 1885 block, to the right, is an inter-war extension. The 1885 building was one of the largest light engineering works in the city 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 H35/70/30/23
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