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Interior View showing men removing Tangye engine
SC 770137
Description Interior View showing men removing Tangye engine
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770137
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Auchintoshan Distillery, West Dunbartonshire This shows the dismantling for preservation of a steam engine used to drive the distillery equipment, and probably installed in the late 1890s. The engine was built by Tangye & Co of Birmingham. Here the flywheel and driving pulley are suspended above the concrete foundations of the engine. In 1969 the distillery was sold by Bass Charrington, a brewing combine which had acquired it through a series of brewery amalgamations, to Eadie Cairns Ltd, who re-equipped it in the mid-1970s. It is now owned by Suntory, the Japanese whisky firm. The earliest positive reference to this lowland malt whisky distillery is in 1830. It has had a chequered history, and has been rebuilt several times. It was probably rebuilt in the whisky boom of the late 1890s, perhaps by Alexander Ferguson & Co, who owned it in 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/58/30
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