Stark & Fulton
Introduction
This company began as a millwright and ironfounder making equipment for mills including steam engines. The firm involved Dugald Bannatyne Stark and W Fulton & Son and was managed by Peter Maconie (of later sugar refining equipment fame) having locations at North Street Works, Anderston, Glasgow and, the older site, Fulton^s Iron Foundry, 43 Mitchell St, Glasgow. The works went on to build locomotives, with Maconie overseeing the work.
Locomotives were built for
1839 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (two 2-2-0 locomotives, nos 1&2, ^Mercury^ and ^Mazeppa^ (in 1847 used for Glasgow and Ardrossan services, with steamers linking to Fleetwood). The locomotives were transferred in parts and assembled in Ayr (July 1839), both were ready for the opening of Ayr [1st] to Irvine. No 1 was renewed in 1846 and survived until 1859.)
1839 Stationary engine providing water pump and other at Ayr [1st] terminus.
1839 Midland Counties Railway (three locomotives 2-2-0s ^Hawk^, ^Vulture^ and ^Eagle^.)
1840, June 10, Dugald Bannatyne Stark appointed locomotive superintendent of the G,P,K&AR (of which he was also, along with relatives, a shareholder).
1840, June 20, Stark & Fulton^s works advertised for sale.
1840, August, Stark & Fulton^s works advertised for sale. An argument over payment between S&F and G,P,K&AR has to go to arbitration (by Murdoch & Aitken), with S&F winning.
1840, October 7, Dugald Bannatyne Stark resigns from the G,P,K&AR after difficulties.
1840 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (four 2-2-2 locomotives, nos 9,10,13&14, ^Kelburne^, ^Garnock^, ^Ailsa^ and ^Loudon^.)
1840 Peter Mconie leaves. After correspondence with ? at a sugar plantation recommends going into sugar business, he sets up with his brother.
1843 Dugald Bannatyne Stark dies, engineer in Trinidad.
[Is the following entry credible, did the company still exist, or are these second hand?]
1849 Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (2 locomotives, nos 1&2, were 2-2-2s - disposed of by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1862.) Possibly used by contractors. These were part of a batch ordered which may have led to the bankruptcy of the company.
Notes:
Sources disagree over the names of the engines supplied for the G,P,K&AR.
An engine was built for John Craig^s mill in Leith in 1837, Craig being DBS^s uncle. DBS^s father ([[Robert Stark whose sister Sarah Stark married John Craig) was in business with Craig and other relatives (Brucefield Spinning Co and Stark, Craig & Co).
William Fulton & Sons: William Fulton had died in 1813, his son Alexander Fulton in 1807. Business ceased around 1836. (Ceases being listed as a Stark & Fulton address around this date.)
Unable to find works on North Street in maps of the period, this may be a postal address with the foundry remaining at Mitchell Street.
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Works
The address of Stark & Fulton was North Street, Anderston, Glasgow. It was a millwrights, including making engines for mills, which went on to produce locomotives. At the time the road was in development, plots were being feud. It is located to the north of Anderston which was then a hive of industry when many foundries, mills, potteries and a centre of the industrial revolution.
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This iron foundry, of William Fulton, was, when established, in the far west of the city of Glasgow. It was on Blythwoodsholm just north of Grahamston, (the former being feud and built over in the coming century and the latter being the district lost with the construction of Glasgow Central).
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