Interior View showing Robey cross-compound engine

Description Interior View showing Robey cross-compound engine

Date 19/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770526

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Springbank Carding and Spinning Mill, Dunblane, Stirling This shows the steam engine, of the cross-compound type, built in 1927 by Robey of Lincoln, from the crankshaft end. In the distance is the low-pressure cylinder. The high-pressure cylinder is out of sight to the right. The flywheel is between the two, on the axle seen in the foreground. The mills, which both spun and wove, continued in operation into the 1980s. The two larger blocks of building were then converted into flats, and new houses built on the site of demolished sections of the complex. The engine was scrapped. This complex was founded in 1851, and enlarged in 1884. It was originally powered by water from the River Allan, and was in 1970 still using Allan water to drive a Gilkes turbine which powered the mill. There was, however, a steam engine retained as a standby. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/61/24

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770526

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