Industrial Machinery
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of industrial machinery that date from 1850 to 1950. This collection consists of textile, carpet, print and rope-making machinery. The carpet-making machinery includes a Chenille-setting loom for weaving carpets and a fur-cutting machine, both from Templeton’s of Glasgow. There are also examples of tapestry carpets, a pirn of yarn and a carpet making-frame, all from Glenpatrick Carpet Works in Paisley. Another Paisley company – A.F.Stoddard and Company – is represented by a late 19th century Glenpatrick patent stair pad. Also contained in the collection is a cast-iron textile loom, made by Hattersley Ltd in Keighley and used by Bute Mills in Rothesay; and three 19th century machines that formed a rope-walk assemblage at Gourock Ropeworks, as well as samples of ropes, cables and hawsers from the company. Printing machinery is represented by a Columbia Eagle press, which was made in London in 1853. The collection also contains a number of other items – such as weighbridge machinery from John Brown & Co. and Barclay, Curle & Co. – as well as some unidentified machinery and plans.
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