Canal Basin Foundry Co
of Port Dundas, Glasgow
Iron founders, boiler makers, and makers of steam engines and a wide range of machinery including machine tools.
1851 John Turnbull, Senior, Master Engineer, employed 48 men and 20 apprentices[1]
c.1857 John Turnbull Junior became an apprentice under his father at the Canal Basin Foundry.
1857 In respect of the sequestration of The Canal Basin Foundry Co, Engineers, Millwrights, and Founders, Port-Dundas, Glasgow, and Adam Malcolm, Engineer, Millwright, and Founder, Glasgow, and John Turnbull, Engineer, Glasgow, the Sole Partners of said Company, as Partners thereof, and as Individuals, John Turnbull made an offer of composition and security thereof. A meeting of creditors was held to decide on acceptance of the offer[2]
c.1867 the company supplied 3 Cornish Steam Boilers to the London Jute Works Co., of Ponders End[3]. They also supplied a compound engine of 157 IHP [4]
Later Turnbull, Grant and Jack were in business at the Canal Basin Foundry