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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 748696

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/748696

NX97NE 159.00 centred 98957 79079

NX97NE 159.01 NX 98804 79089 Canteen

Rubber Works [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1974.

(Location cited as NX 989 791). Motor car factory, Heathhall. Built 1913 for the Arrol-Johnston Co Ltd. A large group of three-storey reinforced-concrete flat-roofed buildings, now a rubber works.

J R Hume 1976.

'The Arrol Johnson Works is the only virtually complete British example of a concrete framed, multi-storey daylight car factory built in emulation of American principles...'.

P Collins and M Stratton 1993

Gates Factory, Main Road, Heathhall. Built in 1913 for the Arrol Johnston Motor Company on the model of designs by Albert Kahn. Additions in the same manner by Kerr & Watson, 1924.

J Gifford 1996.

This factory is depicted, but not noted, on the 1991 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2006.

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