Interior View showing Shanks Lathe
SC 770529
Description Interior View showing Shanks Lathe
Date 19/10/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770529
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Springbank Carding and Spinning Mill, Dunblane, Stirling This shows part of the maintenance workshop in the mill, with a belt-driven gap-bed screwcutting lathe made by Thomas Shanks & Co of Johnstone. This machine was probably built in the late 19th century. 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. This lathe was probably 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 H35/70/61/28
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