Port Dundas Engine Works
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Port Dundas Engine WorksDescription
The works of Forrest and Barr were located at 9 Canal Street , Port Dundas, Glasgow. (Also 412 Dobbie's Loan) The company, originally millwrights, was described in advertising as 'makers of planing, sawing and mould machines of the most improved constructions, patent safety derrick cranes, portable steam hoists, and all kinds of Cranes, hoisting machinery, and builders plant'.
The works manufactured steam engines, for use with cranes. It is possible a locomotive may have been made at some stage, possibly a mobile crane is more likely.
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Engine Works crane worksExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
Chronology Dates
| / / | Dugald Drummond Apprenticeship at Forrest and Barr's Port Dundas Engine Works. |
