View from ENE showing MacDowall Street front of S buildings

Description View from ENE showing MacDowall Street front of S buildings

Date 23/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773324

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonia Engineering Works, Macdowall Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire This shows the Macdowall Street frontage of the main part of the works from the north-east. The original 1868 works is to the right of the tall three-storeyed building, which, with its exposed steel frame, probably dates from the early 20th century. There are large steel-framed workshops behind this frontage. The company's boiler works was on the other side of Macdowall Street. The firm closed in 1981, by which time it was the last large general engineering works in Paisley. Most of the complex has since been demolished. Two of the machines from the boiler shops are in the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine. This works was founded in 1868 by A F Craig, and made a wide range of products, including boilers. It incorporated a large iron foundry. The firm made a large amount of plant for the Scottish shale-oil industry, and then for the petroleum industry, and also made sugar machinery and carpet looms. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/4/3

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