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View from WSW showing traditional doorway arches to workshops

SC 768164

Description View from WSW showing traditional doorway arches to workshops

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768164

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Sentinel Works, Nos 61-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow This shows the frontage of the original machine and erecting shops from the south-west. Behind this brick façade are steel-framed bays. The block on the right, with its exposed steel frame, was probably added just before World War I. 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 H35/70/52/26

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/768164

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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