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Adshead's 1851 map shows the 'Union Foundry - Glasgow & Co' with its entrance on Trafford Street, and the back wall facing Trumpet Street. The buildings occupied a ground area of about 70 ft by 130 ft. Note: The site was subsequently covered by the railway viaduct serving Manchester Central Station. | Adshead's 1851 map shows the 'Union Foundry - Glasgow & Co' with its entrance on Trafford Street, and the back wall facing Trumpet Street. The buildings occupied a ground area of about 70 ft by 130 ft. Note: The site was subsequently covered by the railway viaduct serving Manchester Central Station. | ||
1859 John Glasgow and [[Samuel Hand]] patented (16 April) a system of variable motion for slotting machines<ref>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Special:MemberUsers?file=2/2e/Er18591209.pdf] The Engineer, 9 Dec 1859, p.413</ref> | 1859 [[John Glasgow (1802-1866)|John Glasgow]] and [[Samuel Hand]] patented (16 April) a system of variable motion for slotting machines<ref>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Special:MemberUsers?file=2/2e/Er18591209.pdf] The Engineer, 9 Dec 1859, p.413</ref> | ||
1863 Listed in Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford as suppliers of railway carriage and wagon ironwork, rivet making machines, tools, chains, rivets, screw bolts, crabs, pulley blocks, and lifting jacks. | 1863 Listed in Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford as suppliers of railway carriage and wagon ironwork, rivet making machines, tools, chains, rivets, screw bolts, crabs, pulley blocks, and lifting jacks. | ||
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1865 Announcement of sale of contents of John Glasgow's works, to take place on 13th December. Some examples of equipment: 10cwt [[John Condie|Condie’s]] Patent steam hammer by [[John Musgrave and Sons]], Bolton; 5 cwt Naylor’s Patent steam hammer with 'sliding piston'; 26" turning lathe, will take 4 ft diameter; planing machine with capacity 21 ft by 5 ft by 4 ft; 10 ton travelling crane with double and single purchase crabs; castings for shearing, punching, and screwing machines; patterns for lathes, planing, shearing and punching and screwing machines <ref>Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 25th November 1865</ref> | 1865 Announcement of sale of contents of John Glasgow's works, to take place on 13th December. Some examples of equipment: 10cwt [[John Condie|Condie’s]] Patent steam hammer by [[John Musgrave and Sons]], Bolton; 5 cwt Naylor’s Patent steam hammer with 'sliding piston'; 26" turning lathe, will take 4 ft diameter; planing machine with capacity 21 ft by 5 ft by 4 ft; 10 ton travelling crane with double and single purchase crabs; castings for shearing, punching, and screwing machines; patterns for lathes, planing, shearing and punching and screwing machines <ref>Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 25th November 1865</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:11, 27 January 2025
Engineer of 27 Trafford Street, Manchester.
1841 Pigot & Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1841 lists: John Glasgow, Screw bolt &c manufacturer. House: 53 Great Jackson Street, Hulme; John Glasgow, Screw bolt maker. House: 29 Fernley Street, Hulme (presumably a different John Glasgow); John & David Glasgow, screw bolt and lathe and tool manufacturers, Trafford Street, Deansgate; Smith & Glasgow, millwrights and engineers, Union Foundry, Trafford Street
1850 Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1850 includes John Glasgow, screw bolt, lathe, tool and patent rivet manfr, Union Foundry, Trafford Street
Adshead's 1851 map shows the 'Union Foundry - Glasgow & Co' with its entrance on Trafford Street, and the back wall facing Trumpet Street. The buildings occupied a ground area of about 70 ft by 130 ft. Note: The site was subsequently covered by the railway viaduct serving Manchester Central Station.
1859 John Glasgow and Samuel Hand patented (16 April) a system of variable motion for slotting machines[1]
1863 Listed in Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford as suppliers of railway carriage and wagon ironwork, rivet making machines, tools, chains, rivets, screw bolts, crabs, pulley blocks, and lifting jacks.
Produced an unusual planing and slotting machine for Henry Grissell of the Regents Canal Ironworks, London. See illustration. It was described in 'Engineering' in 1868[2]
1865 Announcement of sale of contents of John Glasgow's works, to take place on 13th December. Some examples of equipment: 10cwt Condie’s Patent steam hammer by John Musgrave and Sons, Bolton; 5 cwt Naylor’s Patent steam hammer with 'sliding piston'; 26" turning lathe, will take 4 ft diameter; planing machine with capacity 21 ft by 5 ft by 4 ft; 10 ton travelling crane with double and single purchase crabs; castings for shearing, punching, and screwing machines; patterns for lathes, planing, shearing and punching and screwing machines [3]