Port Dundas Foundry
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Port Dundas FoundryDescription
This foundry was on the east side of Port Dundas Road. It was probably the works of Johnston & MacNab millwrights and engineers who also built carriages. They built, for the opening of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, a railway velocipede 'Novelty' which was seated 'like a gig'.
A newspaper report of the opening is intriguing 'Mr. Murray on his velocipede took only 54 minutes to perform the task going, although there were two young gentlemen mounted behind him. He has, however, gone eleven miles an hour before. This velocipede, which is a very elegant one, was made by Messrs. Johnston and Macnab, who are at present engaged in making one to carry six persons.'
54 minutes to travel the whole line perhaps? And did they build the larger velocipede?
The site of the works was not long after the 1850s in a variety of uses.
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Foundry| Nearby stations Buchanan Street Cowcaddens [Subway] Buchanan Street [Subway] Glasgow Queen Street High Level Glasgow Queen Street Low Level Glasgow (Townhead) Glasgow Central St Georges Cross [Subway] Charing Cross [GC and DR] Glasgow Central Low Level Argyle Street Glasgow St Enoch St Enoch [Subway] High Street Central Station Broomielaw Hoist | Atlas Works London Wharf [Port Dundas] Carron Wharf [Port Dundas] Hamburgh Wharf [Port Dundas] Leith Wharf [Port Dundas] Rotterdam Wharf [Port Dundas] South Spiers Wharf Port Dundas Engine Works Bergius Engineering Works Buchanan Street Shed Buchanan Street Goods Crawford Street Chemical Works Phoenix Iron Works [1st] Phoenix Iron Works [2nd] Tourist/other Dundashill Distillery |
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