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David Carlaw
| Name | David Carlaw |
| Ortssitz | Glasgow |
| Straße | Ropework Lane 52-56 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Armaturenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | 1888 bezeichnet als "General Engineer, Printers' and Stationers' Machinist". 1901: als "David Carlaw & Sons", Finnieston Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901) 45] Anzeige in Robert Pool's Glasgow Collection (http://www.flickr.com) |
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Kommentar |
| Dampfmanometer |
1883 |
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Dreifachexpansionsmaschine für "Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.", erhielt auf der Edinburgh Exhibition eine Goldmedaille |
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1883 |
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auch Hubzähler usw. |
| Indikatoren |
1883 |
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für Dampfmaschinen |
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1883 |
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| ZEIT | 1888 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | It is a great pleasure to make prominent mention of one who, as an inventor and skilled mechanic, has made his name famous. We refer to Mr. David Carlaw, general engineer, printers? and stationers? machinist, who established his business in the above location more than a quarter of a century ago. In 1873 he removed to his present extensive premises.
This establishment comprises a counting-house, drawing-office, and workshops. On the ground floor, where the large double-cylinder engine is placed which drives the machinery, there are planing, slotting, and shaping machines, lathes and verticals. In the grinding shop are four large grinding stones and buffs, which, are used for sharpening guillotine knives and polishing. The first flat above is termed the erecting shop, and contains wheel-cutting machines, lathes, and other tools. The second flat is confined to steam gauge making and the construction of mechanical models for clients. The pattern-makers? shop is situated on the upper floor, which is also used as a store for patterns, steam gauges, engine counters, and other curious instruments and machines in connection with general engineering.
The machines in connection with the printing trade made by Mr. Carlaw, some of which are the products of his own inventive genius, and many having important improvements, comprise paging machines, perforating, envelope-folding, embossing, lever cutting, self-feeding, eyeletting, treadle punching and cutting machines. Mr. Carlaw?s skill as a model maker is thoroughly exemplified in the triple expansion model engine, the making of which was entrusted to him by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, and which gained the gold medal at the Edinburgh Exhibition. At this exhibition the ?Leader? envelope-making machine, which was made by Mr. Carlaw, attracted great attention from the complicity of its working parts and the perfect manner in which the paper is folded, gummed and placed in racks, then counted into parcels of twenty-five, each envelope then being ready for use.
The Bailie, in one of its recent issues, observes, "Mr. Carlaw goes in for all kinds of engineering specialities. He is the guide, philosopher, and friend of patentees, inventors, and all who have original ideas to lick into practical shape". In private life Mr. Carlaw has many friends, and is well known as being an authority in poultry and flowers, and his knowledge of philosophical instruments of all kinds brings him in contact with the leading scientists of the day. |
| QUELLE | [Post-Office Annual Glasgow Directory (1880-1881) 794] |
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| ZEIT | 1901 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Probably of all the mechanical workshops in Glasgow no one is of so much interest to the inventive genius as that of Messrs. Carlaw, where work of all kinds requiring the greatest exactitude can be done with the intelligent aid of the members of the firm. Mr. Carlaw, senior, has long been known as an ingenious inventor, whose models of machinery have won the admiration of engineers in all parts of the world. At the last Glasgow International Exhibition Mr. Carlaw had a model of triple expansion engines made at Fairfield, and another of quadruple expansion engines by Messrs. Denny, of Dumbarton, which attracted much attention and received much praise. In the present Exhibition he has a model of a locomotive by Messrs. Neilson, Reid A Co., which is a marvel of exactitude in construction.
n recent years the business of Messrs. Carlaw has very much developed, and in their fine new premises in Finnieston Street they have a splendid collection of special tools of the latest design and best construction, which are used for turning out a great variety of work They, however, make a speciality of printers' and stationers' machinery, to which for many years Mr. Carlaw has devoted much attention. Some specimens of these machines are to be seen in the present Glasgow Exhibition, so that members of the British Association will have an opportunity of inspecting them. Mr. Carlaw is the patentee of special machines for printing, numbering, and cutting tramway and other similar tickets, and which represent an evolution which he has been carrying out for many years. They are most ingenious in their design and perfect in their performance. The firm, however, undertakes the construction of all kinds of machine tools for special purposes, and of high-speed engines for electric work. Any inventor with a good idea and sufficient money will find that the Messrs. Carlaw are able to render him effective assistance in carrying it into practice. |
| QUELLE | [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901) 45] |
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