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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Bowser and Cameron

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Bowser & Cameron of McNeil Street, Glasgow

  • 1856 Engineers, machine makers and ship hearth manufacturers. William Bowser‘s home address: 23 Monteith Row[1]
  • 1857 Newspaper advertisement: 'Bowser and Cameron have on hand, for sale, a number of Henderson's Patent derrick cranes, various sizes. Springfield Iron Works, Glasgow[2]
  • A small wheeled crane made of cast and wrought iron with movable balance weight, by Bowser and Cameron, Glasgow, on pier at Hopeman Harbour, Aberdeenshire[3][4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Post Office Glasgow Directory for 1856, 1857
  2. Glasgow Herald - Monday 2nd March 1857
  3. [1] Aberdeenshire Council Moray Sites and Monuments Record webpage for Hopeman Harbour.
  4. [2]RCAHMS webpage with photo of the crane