Port Dundas Engine Works

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Port Dundas Engine Works

Description

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.

Tags

Engine Works crane works

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Chronology Dates

  /  /    Dugald Drummond
Apprenticeship at Forrest and Barr's Port Dundas Engine Works.