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J. & R. Houston, Cartsburn Foundry and Glenburn Ironworks
| Name | J. & R. Houston, Cartsburn Foundry and Glenburn Ironworks |
| Ortssitz | Greenock (Schottland) |
| Straße | Upper Ingleston |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | 1886 in Upper Ingleston. 1923: "J. R. Houston & Kerr Ltd., Cartsburn Foundry and Glenburn Engineering Works" [Greenock Telegraph, 06.06.1923]. 1937 wurde die "Barr & Company (Brassfounders) Limited, Cartsburn Foundry" in der Orchard Street eingetragen [http://www.cylex-uk.co.uk]. |
| Quellenangaben | [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901) 38] [Post-office Greenock directory (1886/87) 308] [Lloyd's Register of Shipping 2 (1910/11) 385] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| Juni 1923 |
Schließung von "J. R. Houston & Kerr Ltd." |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Gußeisen |
1901 |
[McLean: Local industries of Glasgow] |
1901 |
[McLean: Local industries of Glasgow] |
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| Schiffsdampfmaschinen |
1910 |
[Lloyd's Register of Shipping 2 (1910/11) 385] |
1910 |
[Lloyd's Register of Shipping 2 (1910/11) 385] |
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| Schiffskessel |
1910 |
[Lloyd's Register of Shipping 2 (1910/11) 385] |
1910 |
[Lloyd's Register of Shipping 2 (1910/11) 385] |
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| ZEIT | 1901 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | These works were started about thirty years ago as a foundry and engineering shop, and in the course of years the growing colonial trade of the firm developed to such an extent along with their present home trade, it became necessary to acquire another site and the large portion of the late Messrs. "R. Steel & Co."'s works in Ligledton Street, and which are now known as the "Glenhum Iron Works" was acquired about eight years ago, when the engineering part of the work at Cartsbnm was removed and refitted up in the newly acquired premises, and at the same time a large number of new tools, with hydiaulic plant, were introduced, and the whole shop and offices fitted up with electric light. The works at Cartsburn were entirely converted into a large moulding shop, and fitted up with steam and travelling cranes, lines of rails, with turntable running through the shop. Although the foundry can turn out from 25 to 30 tons per day, it is already found to be much too small. The firm turns out castings of all dimensions, made in [...], dry sand, and green sand. It also makes structural work, iron roofing, and fireproof buildings. In the more strictly mechanical engineering department it undertakes plants for sugar estates and refineries, and for breweries, distilleries, and gasworks, as well as high-speed engines; and all the usual mechanical fittings of manufactories. The chief markets to which the firm exports its productions are Australia, India, China, and Japan. |
| QUELLE | [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901) 38] |
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