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C 59528 Empire Exhibition 1938
"The Scotsman Trade Review", Empire Exhibition Issue, April 1938.
Page 72 and page 73.
Including on page 72 an advertisement for the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd, with a drawing of the bank's Head Office at 14 George Street, Edinburgh; a view of the slitting machines in the strip department of Brunton's wireworks, Musselburgh and an article on wiremaking (page 73)
Article on Hillington Industrial Estate, Renfrewshire (page 73)
1938
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D 11923 Interior.
View of ropery from W of stock rope racks.
20/3/1997
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D 11925 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from W at W end of Rigging Shop, showing 50-ton proof loading machine and 500-ton and 1,000-ton presses (note that 'British Ropes' and Bruntons were not associated).
20/3/1997
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D 11926 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from E of E end of Rigging Shop.
20/3/1997
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D 11927 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from E (on socket platform built for production of ropes for Tsing -Ma-Lantau road/railway suspension bridge in Hong Kong, due for completion in 1997) of rotating back-stand end of dual-purpose closing/stranding machine (D15).
20/3/1997
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D 11928 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from ESE (on socket platform built for production of ropes for Tsing -Ma-Lantau road/railway suspension bridge in Hong Kong, due for completion in 1997) of rotating back-stand end of dual-purpose closing/stranding machine (D15).
20/3/1997
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D 11930 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from W of take-off end of dual-purpose closing and stranding machine (B7 & 8), used to produce wire ropes, including lock-coil bridge ropes.
20/3/1997
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D 11931 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from WSW of take-off (capstan) end of dual-purpose closing/stranding machine (D15).
20/3/1997
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D 11932 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from WNW of cradle sections and control box of dual-purpose closing/stranding machine (D15).
20/3/1997
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D 11936 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from W of winding department within which wire was wound onto bobbins.
20/3/1997
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D 11943 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Ropery, 100-ton Test Range: interior view from E in centre of range, looking up slope towards anchorage.
8/4/1992
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D 11954 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery, 500-ton Test Range from W of winch unit, with bogie tunrtable in foreground.
8/4/1997
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D 11963 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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Detail of typical tube and bobbin cradles in stranding machine (D6)
8/4/1997
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D 11933 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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Detail of cradle sections of dual-purpose closing/stranding machine (D15).
20/3/1997
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D 11934 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from W within Engineers Machine Shop, including lathe (left) and Archdale Drill (right).
20/3/1997
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D 11935 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from E at W end of Rigging Shop, showing 1000-ton (foreground right) and 500-ton (distant left) Presses (Note that British Ropes and Bruntons were not associated).
20/3/1997
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D 11937 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from SE of dismantled 'Disc-type' lock-coil rope closing/stranding machine (D11), moved from elsewhere in the factory (foundations in foreground mark position of site where it was to be re-located).
20/3/1997
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D 11938 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from S across ropery department, showing interior details of building.
20/3/1997
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D 11939 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from NNW in Joiners' Shop, with nailing machine in background.
8/4/1997
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D 11940 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery from N in Joiners' Shop, used to make reels for rope (with partially-made arrester-rope reels in foreground).
8/4/1997
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D 11941 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery, 100-ton Test Range from E from winch house, with bogie turntable in foreground.
8/4/1997
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D 11942 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery, 100-ton Test Range from E at winch house end of range, looking towards anchorage.
8/4/1997
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D 11944 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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Ropery, 100-ton Test Range: view from W at anchorage, showing bogie (foreground), and winch house in far distance.
8/4/1997
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D 11945 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
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View of ropery, 100-ton Test Range from E within winch house.
8/4/1997
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