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Publication Account
Date 1981
Event ID 611892
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/611892
Port Dundas Distillery (1), Glasgow [location cited as NS593668] Lowland Malt: Brown, Gourlay (also Gourlie) and Co. 1813-18 when dissolved; continued by John Gourlay and Co.; John Gourlay senior withdrew from the company in 1833, John Gourlay junior withdrew in 1835; company dissolved on Robert Gourlay's death but continued under the same name; Coffey still installed under licence (18 March 1845).
Port Dundas Distillery (2), Glasgow [location cited as NS593668] Lowland Malt: Daniel McFarlane and Co. (1811-29), when dissolved by death of Robert McFarlane; John MacFarlane and Co., 1833; M McFarlane and Co., 1833-77, when it became part of the Distillers Company Ltd. (DCL). Also known in the 1830s as the Port Dundas Distillery Company. Coffey still installed under licence (18 March 1845) with pot stills surviving until late 1880s.
Port Dundas, Glasgow [location cited as NS593668]. Grain: Two distilleries until 1860s, one carried on under the name of John Gourlay and Co., the other as M McFarnlane and Co. Both had Coffey stills installed under 1845 licences. Pot stills, however, continued to be used until after the firms amalgamanted becoming part of DCL in 1877. There were three Coffey stills and five pot stills at this point. There was a fire in 1903 but distillery was rebuilt. Transferred to Scottish Grain Distillers in 1966 and rebuilt through 1960s. Two Coffey stills and dark grains plant in 1981.
M M Moss and J R Hume 1981, 244; 281
