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 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.

Thomas Hudson (of Sheepford)

From Graces Guide
c1880s. Plate Bending Rolls used at their works. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
Vertical Plate Bending Rolls. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.
Boiler Turning Machine. Exhibit at the Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life.

of Sheepford Boiler and Girder Works, Locks Street, Coatdyke, Coatbridge, near Glasgow

Established in the 1870s.

Makers of combined cylindrical and water-tube boilers, having a Lancashire boiler flanked by a water-tube element in each of the side flues[1]

Closed in the 1980s.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Steam Boiler Construction' by Walter S. Hutton, 5th edition, Crosby Lockwood & Co, 1921