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Dron & Lawson, Cranstonhill Tool Works
| Name | Dron & Lawson, Cranstonhill Tool Works |
| Ortssitz | Glasgow |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Inhaber um 1888: William Dron, David Lawson und John Lawson. Bezug zu "Alexander Chaplin & Co., Cranstonhill Engine Works" (s.d.) unbekannt. |
| Quellenangaben | [Maver: Glasgow 1830 to 1912 (1994) 116] [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901) 46] |
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| 1852 |
Gründung in der North Street |
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Zeit nicht genannt; "screwing machines" (vml. Gewindeschneidemaschinen), wurden zur Spezialität |
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| ZEIT | 1888 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | A firm of much prominence and importance in connection with the engineering and mechanical industries of Glasgow is that of Messrs. Dron & Lawson, controlling the well-known Cranstonhill Tool Works. This old and notable house was founded in 1852 in North Street by Messrs. Dron & Lawson, fathers of the present, partners, and the personnel of the firm now includes Messrs. William Dron, David Lawson, and John Lawson, who capably and successfully carry on the business under its original title.
The Cranstonhill Tool Works are extensive and thoroughly well-suited to the industrial purposes to which they are devoted. They cover an area of about 16,000 square feet, and are comprised in three large structures joined together longitudinally. The first building contains four spacious flats, the second a large fitting shop with travelling crane, and the third one is the yard smithy, and each measures about 160 by 35 feet in ground area. In the four-storey building all light work is done, the ground floor being devoted to the heavier work, while the top flat is used as a pattern-shop. The establishment is very complete in all details of equipment, the plant being extensive, valuable, and highly effective. The working force numbers upwards of a hundred men.
The manufactures of the house are numerous and noteworthy, and among leading specialities are improved hand-screwing apparatus, taps, dies, screw tools, screwing machines of all sizes ; planing, shaping, slotting, and drilling machines ; self-acting, self-screwing, and hand-lathes of all sizes ; punching and shearing machines, plate-planing, plate-bending, and riveting machines, countersink verticals, and steam hammers ; waggon-builders? and block-makers? mortising machines ; oval lathes, for hammer-shafts and other purposes ; stationers', bookbinders', and boxmakers? millboard cutting machines, guillotines, embossing presses, circular and plain-scoring machines, screw presses, and corner-cutting machines. Taps, dies, and screwing machines are produced in especially large number and quantity, and the firm were sole manufacturers, while the patent lasted, of ?Dudgeon?s Tube Expanders?, which they make largely at all times. A widespread trade is controlled.
The partners are well known as thoroughly practical and energetic men of business, conducting their important industry with spirit and enterprise, and Mr. Dron is a prominent Glasgow citizen, having formerly for many years been a bailie and a member of the Town Council. |
| QUELLE | http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/Dron_&_Lawson.htm = Publikation von 1888 |
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| ZEIT | 1901 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | This firm has long held a high reputation for its machine tools, and especially for everything connected with screwing apparatus. Long before machinery attained its present development, the taps and dies made by Dron " Lawson were known in almost every workshop in Scotland. Mr. Dron, one of the founders of the firm, and the grandfather of the present partners, made the tempering of the taps and dies his special work, and so careful was he about it that his name became a household word among engineers. His reputation was worthily maintained by his son, and now his grandsons are in possession, and they seem determined that np effort shall be wanting on their part to keep up the family name for excellence of workmanship.
Screwing apparatus still forms the speciality of the firm, and while great attention is paid to the making of taps and dies for hand work, they now turn out a great variety of screwing machines of all sorts and sizes, from ordinary machines for screwing bolts and nuts to those which screw both ends of a 15-inch steel tube at the same time, and to the special apparatus required in connection with the making of water-tube boilers.
Patent roller tube expanders have long been specialities of the firm, and these have been of much use in aiding in the development of modem marine boilers. They also make excellent lathes of large size and other similar tools, and there are few engineering establishments in Scotland where the machine tools of Messrs. Dron " Lawson are not to be found in use. |
| QUELLE | [McLean: Local industries of Glasgow and the west of Scotland (1901)] |
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