View from W showing NW and SW fronts of office block

Description View from W showing NW and SW fronts of office block

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768160

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Sentinel Works, Nos 61-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow This shows the frontage of the works from the south-west. The five-storeyed block was built as a pattern shop and store, and offices, and was designed by Archibald Leitch. It was the first reinforced concrete building in Glasgow. To the right are machine and erecting shops. The Sentinel steam wagon, made here, was so successful that the firm moved its production in 1916 to a new purpose-built factory at Shrewsbury. Thereafter this works concentrated, in peacetime, on compressor manufacture. During both World Wars it made munitions. This works was built in 1903-14 for Alley & McLellan, engineers, who had been in Polmadie Road since about 1880. They originally specialised in building small ships which were trial-assembled at this inland site, then broken down for shipment. This new works was built to make steam lorries and air compressors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/52/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/768160

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap