View from W showing WSW and NNW fronts of E block beside machine moulding shop
SC 782205
Description View from W showing WSW and NNW fronts of E block beside machine moulding shop
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 782205
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Columbian Foundry, Bonnybridge, Falkirk This shows part of the south frontage of the main part of the foundry, from the north-west with more of the complex on the right. The gantry carried steam pipes across the road from the boiler house on the right to the moulding shops on the left. In 1971 the works was making components for gas stoves, and, in a separate unit, institutional and other large-scale cooking stoves, mainly out of stainless steel. The works has since closed and been demolished. This works was established in about 1870 by Smith & Wellstood to make American solid-fuel stoves. James Smith, the founder, came over from the United States in 1855, and at first made stoves in Glasgow. In 1876 the Bonnybridge works was making about 60,000 stoves a year. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/39/1
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