Underwood Weaving Mills
Location type
WorksName and dates
Underwood Weaving MillsOpen on the William Beardmore & Co Ltd.
Description
This weaving mill was owned by Archibald Coats and Peter Coats. The works was both north (the older part) and south of the former Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway just west of Paisley Gilmour Street's Wallneuk Junction. A railway crossed over a bridge giving access from the north to the south part of the works.
When the Mo-Car Syndicate (later New Arrol-Johnstone Car Co Ltd) factory in Camlachie burned down in 1901 the southern portion was not in use and was made available to the company by Coats.
Production moved to the Heathhall Works near Dumfries in 1913.
Taxi production for Beardmore was located here between 1919 and 1937.
After 1939 the works became a wool store.
Tags
Mills Car factory| Nearby stations Paisley Gilmour Street Paisley St James Paisley Hamilton Street Paisley Abercorn Paisley Canal [1st] Paisley West Paisley Canal Paisley East Ferguslie Hawkhead Hawkhead [1st] Sandyford Halt Potterhill Elderslie Dykebar | Underwood Viaduct Underwood Coal Depot Caledonia Engineering Works Paisley Mineral Depot [GSW] St Mirren Engineering Works Paisley Junction Paisley Gas Works Paisley St James Shed Paisley Western Coal Depot [2nd] Abercorn Shipbuilding Yard Abercorn Oil Works Abercorn Foundry Tourist/other Stoneybrae Signal Box Stoneybrae Twin Signal Box King Street Signal Box |
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Chronology Dates
| / /1919 | William Beardmore & Co Ltd Underwood Weaving Mills starts building Taxis. |
| / /1925 | Beardmore (Paisley) Ltd Formed by William Beardmore & Co Ltd to build Taxis (at Underwood Weaving Mills?). |
| / /1937 | William Beardmore & Co Ltd Paisley Works (Underwood Weaving Mills) closed. |
| /05/1939 | William Beardmore & Co Ltd Anniesland Works and Underwood Weaving Mills sold. |
