Interior View showing dressing shop
SC 787240
Description Interior View showing dressing shop
Date 26/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 787240
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Victoria Foundry, Paton Street, Galashiels, Scottish Borders This shows the interior of the dressing shop, which shares a separate building with the pattern store. Here castings from the moulding shops have surplus metal, needed to allow the mould to fill, are removed. The objects on the left are rotors for disintegrating machines. The firm's customers included marine, bakery, chemical, textile, and motor engineers. By 1971 many of these businesses had closed. This foundry had closed and been demolished by 1974. It probably owed its earlier competitive situation to lower wages for men in a town dominated by employers of women. This foundry was established in about 1880 by Thomas McLaren & Sons, a partnership of six brothers. It became a limited company in 1944. Though so far away from the central belt it specialised in engineering castings, some of considerable size and weight, for a wide range of customers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/34/13
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