Notices of Some of the Principal Manufactures of the West of Scotland

amount annum appliances Ayrshire blackband blast blast-furnaces boiler branch British built by Messrs Calciferous Sandstone carbonate Carboniferous cast chiefly Clyde coal Coatbridge colour commenced Company compound connection construction copper cotton cranes cwts cylinders David Napier diameter distilled employed engineering firms erected establishment extensive fabrics factory feet finished forgings Foundry fuel furnaces Glasgow Glasgow district Greenock hæmatite heat horse-power inches industry ironstone Ironworks James Kilmarnock Lanarkshire Lancefield large numbers largest lime limestone locomotive machinery malleable iron manufacture marine engineering mechanical mill Napier Napier & Sons Neilson & Co operation Paddle Steamers Paisley patent pipes plates potash power-looms present production puddling furnaces quantity railway recent Red Sandstone rivetting road steamers Robert Napier rocks Rollox sailing Scotch screw seams shale shipbuilding ships soda steam hammers steam navigation steel Street success sulphuric acid supplied thickness thread tion tons trade tubes various vessels weaving West of Scotland