Interior View showing new pattern of telephone kiosks

Description Interior View showing new pattern of telephone kiosks

Date 1/2/71

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

Catalogue Number SC 774063

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a batch of telephone kiosks, of a then-new pattern, assembled from panels cast in the foundry, and painted and assembled ready for shipment. Iron castings are particularly suited to the batch production of identical objects, like these. The Lion Foundry gained a high reputation for its architectural ironwork, notably bandstands and cast iron building front panels, popular in inter-war buildings It was making telephone kiosks, as seen here, and counterweights for forklift trucks in 1971. It has since closed and been demolished. This large foundry was established in about 1880 by three foremen from the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, which was world-renowned for the scale and quality of its output of architectural iron castings. The new foundry was next to Kirkintilloch railway station, and had a wharf on the Forth & Clyde Canal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/6/29

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap