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Glasgow, South Street, Barclay Curle Diesel Engineering Works
Date 2014
Event ID 1115766
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1115766
See digital file WP007441 for fuller report.
The former Barclay Curle North British Engine Works in South Street, Glasgow (1) was probably built in 1913 to manufacture marine diesel engines. A large giant cantilever crane by Sir William Arrol and Co. Ltd (NS52NW 52.01) was added in 1920 to enable the diesel engines to be lowered into ships being fitted out.
The form of this building closely relates to its function but manages to exhibit an industrial aesthetic reminiscent of the German electrical industry and buildings of companies like Osrams, AEG and Siemens in Berlin with an emphasis on modernity, new combinations of building materials, design and the use of electrification.
This building was visited by RCAHMS’s Threatened Buildings programme as the owners of the site were applying to remove the southernmost of the two Electric Overhead Travelling (EOT) cranes which are original to the engine works. See digital file WP007441 for fuller report.
Visited by Survey and Recording Section, Industry and Architecture (M.McDonald), Heritage directorate, HES, July 2014.
