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View from SE showing old bolster wagons and travelling crane in background
SC 768943
Description View from SE showing old bolster wagons and travelling crane in background
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 768943
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Crane Works, No 92 Rigby Street, Glasgow This shows part of the works from the south. The bolster wagons had been used for shipping parts of cranes. Behind them are the workshops, and a steel-framed Goliath crane serving the yard where cranes were trial-erected before dismantling for shipment. The works was eventually acquired in 1911 by Sir William Arrol & Co, who ran it as a branch of their Dalmarnock Iron Works. The firm had a successful business in constructing their own design of giant cantilever cranes, and other heavy shipyard and dockyard cranes. This works closed in the 1960s. This works was founded in 1903-4 by the Glasgow Electric Crane & Hoist Co Ltd, a subsidiary of William Beardmore & Co Ltd and Vickers Ltd. The firm built the large fitting-out crane for Beardmore's Naval Construction Yard at Dalmuir, but did not prove a commercial success. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/54/9
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/768943
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