Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Kelvinside Electricity Co

From Graces Guide

Built the Kelvinside Power Station in a residential part of the city close to the Hyndland terminus of the North British Railway. It was equipped with 3 Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 3 Willans engines coupled to Bruce Peebles 250 volt dynamos

1899 The works and whole undertaking of the Kelvinside Electricity Co were purchased and taken over by the Corporation in August 1899.

By 1912 the Kelvinside power station was used to boost supply

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