Interior View showing Cornish Boiler

Description Interior View showing Cornish Boiler

Date 19/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770534

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glenruthven Mills, Auchterarder, Perth & Kinross This shows the boiler which supplies steam to the engine, and for heating the factory. It is of the Cornish type, with a single flue in which the furnace is situated, and was made in Glasgow in 1949 by Penman & Co. It is hand-fired, with coal of the size seen here. This factory continued in production, steam-driven to the end, until the mid-1980s. Thereafter it came into the ownership off a joinery firm. A trust was set up to preserve, and to run, the engine and boiler, but has ceased to exist. The engine is probably still in the building. This factory was built in 1877, and was remarkably unchanged in 1970. It was still steam-driven, though both engine and boiler were replacements for the originals. It was equipped with Anderston Foundry power looms, possibly original, and had two hand warping mills, still used in 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/61/34

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