View from W showing MacDowall Street fronts of N and S buildings

Description View from W showing MacDowall Street fronts of N and S buildings

Date 23/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 773351

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonia Engineering Works, Macdowall Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire This shows part of the Macdowall Street frontage of the works from the north-west. The frontage buildings housed lighter shops, making, for example, carpet looms. The dividing line between the original workshops and a later extension can be seen in the centre, where there is a change in the brickwork. 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, a punching and shearing machine and a plate-planing machine, 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 H35/71/4/37

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap