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Thomas Allan & Sons, Springbank and North Woodside Iron Works
| Name | Thomas Allan & Sons, Springbank and North Woodside Iron Works |
| Ortssitz | Glasgow |
| Ortsteil | Springbank |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Nicht sicher, ob immer mit dem Zusatz "Springbank and North Woodside Iron Works". Dazu eine Gießerei in South Stockton-on-Tees, bekannt als Bon Lea Foundry. |
| Quellenangaben | http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/Allan_Thomas_&_Sons.htm |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1840 |
Gründung durch Thomas Allan, senior in Maryhill |
| 1848 |
Thomas Allan, senior erwirbt ein 8 acres großes Grundstück in Springbank und verlegt sein Unternehmen von Maryhill nach dort und benennt es "Springbank and North Woodside Iron Works" |
| 1877 |
Tod von Thomas Allan, senior |
| 1883 |
Thomas Allan, Junior nimmt James White und J. S. McEwen als Teilhaber auf. Die Firmierung "Thomas Allan & Sons" bleibt bestehen. |
| 1884 |
Tod von Thomas Allan, Junior |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Eisentöpfe |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
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| Gas- und Wasserrohre |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
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| Gußeisen |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
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| Roststäbe |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
1888 |
Publikation 1888 |
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| ZEIT | 1888 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Springbank Works are situate just within the Glasgow municipal boundary, and are of very large dimensions, extending from the western junction of the New City Road with Garscube Road to the bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal at Firhill Bridge, and the area covered is one of fully eight acres. The buildings incidental to the works occupy a very large portion of the property, and are for the most part one and two storeys in height. Their mechanical equipment and general facilities attain to a high degree of perfection, and everything connected with the industry, down even to the minutest operative detail, has been arranged with a view to rapid and economical execution of work. The moulding shops constitute a feature of great interest and importance here, and are among the most extensive in Glasgow, covering not less than two acres of ground. When the works are in full operation the force of hands employed numbers from four hundred and fifty to five hundred men, as occasion necessitates. Messrs. Allan have an auxiliary foundry at South Stockton-on-Tees, known as the Bon Lea Foundry, covering an area of six acres, doing portions of the same class of work as the Springbank establishment, and employing from a hundred and seventy-five to two hundred men.
The productions of the house include a very comprehensive range of castings, and comprise the following principal items: gas and water underground pipes, valves, close and open-fire ranges, register grates and shams, rain-water goods, hot-water goods, stable and cowhouse fittings, garden chairs and rollers, shop and cabin stoves, mantel registers and shams, mantelpieces, all kinds of hollow ware, air bricks, sink traps, cattle troughs, coil cases, columns, com stack pillars, skeleton grates, gate and fence posts, scrapers, furnace bars, gratings, jaw boxes, pig troughs, pumps, skylights, desk and seat stands, drain-pipes, cisterns, staircases, street gutters, &c., &c. For all these classes of goods Messrs. Thomas Allan & Sons maintain a very high reputation, and, in addition to supplying the trade in the leading towns of the United Kingdom with castings of the above descriptions for all sanitary, heating, and building and furnishing purposes, the firm do a most extensive home and foreign trade in cast-iron gas and water-pipes, of which they make a speciality, producing all sizes, from a 12-inch bore downwards.
The counting-house and private offices of the concern are situate within the confines of the works. |
| QUELLE | http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/Allan_Thomas_&_Sons.htm |
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