Imperial Works
of Airdrie
1900 the Imperial Tube Works at Airdrie were erected, and on an adjacent site the Climax Engineering Works by A. and J. Stewart and Menzies
1957 Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd's Imperial Works.[1]
1966 Imperial Tube Works, Airdrie.[2]
1970 Imperial Works at Airdrie is involved in finishing processes of steel tubes (screwing, cutting, facing, bevelling, etc.), tube protections and fabrication work.[3]
Stewarts and Lloyds' Clydesdale Works was the only producer of seamless tubes in the United Kingdom; it was operated in conjunction with Calder Works (closed 1986) in Coatbridge (which specialised in tube end joints and extruded plastic coatings) and the Imperial Works in Airdrie. Most output was destined for use in the oil industry. [4]
1990 "... cheaper pipes would be supplied from abroad for finishing at Clydesdale’s sister plant, the Imperial Works at Airdrie, where 400 workers are expected to keep their jobs."[5] Imperial is the finishing end of the Scottish tubeworks, concentrated at the Clydesdale plant[6]
1994 reference to British Steel's Imperial Plate Works, Airdrie[7] but not sure whether that is correct.