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Publication Account
Date 2013
Event ID 967167
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967167
Established in 1791, Dundee Foundry was known (under James Stirling) for the air engine, patented by Rev R Stirling in 1827, and for locomotives
1834-48, with apprentices going on to manage GWR and GNR Works. From 1843 its owners, Gourlay Brothers, concentrated on marine engineering,
building ships, from 1854 at Marine Parade and from 1870 at Camperdown Shipyard, and engined RRS Discovery and SS Robin. The firm closed in 1908. The principal surviving building is the marine engine works of 1871, cast-iron framed on I-section stanchions. The narrower span housed two floors for machining on hefty Hodgkinson beams, and the wider span was a
full-height space for assembly of inverted vertical engines.
This erecting shop was dismantled in 2001-4, rotated through 180 degrees and its iron frame and timber king post roofs re-erected within new walls for what is now Marks and Spencer. The roofs can be appreciated from the cafe and an electric travelling crane by Babcock and Wilcox of Renfrew is well displayed.The Dundee and Tay Whale Fishing Companies were just to the west, where the swimming pool now is (around NO 4080 3064) able, aptly, to haul a whale ashore. This area has been land-locked since 1833.
M Watson, 2013
