The Kinetics Industrial Museum is a collection of paperwork and artefacts, mostly to do with Glasgow and Scottish industry. The museum is open during shop hours.
A selection of exhibits, in no particular order:
Drawings from Howden’s Engineering Works, Glasgow.
Miscellany from the Meadowside Shipyard at Partick, Glasgow.
Glass lantern slides from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Oil can from the North British Railway.
Plan by William Arrol & Co for the John Brown shipyard.
Model steam engine, maker unknown.
Ship’s telegraph face made by Mechans Ltd. of Scotstoun.
A beautiful drawing of a water turbine for Paton’s Mill, Johnstone.
Glass lantern slides from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
German model coal and hydro power stations. Some assembly needed.
An IBM badge with a real microchip on it.
Glass lantern slides from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Plan of a water turbine for Paton’s mill, Johnstone.
Enamel sign from Lambhill Ironworks.
Detonator tins from Nobel’s Explosives, Glasgow.
Maker’s plate from a boiler made by the Falkirk Iron Co.
Miscellany from the Meadowside Shipyard at Partick, Glasgow.
Titanium afterburner flap from a military jet engine.
Plan of IBM Greenock.
Badge from the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary Dounreay Dog Section.
A beautiful hand-drawn poster of an industrial fan made by Howden’s of Glasgow.
Rollo Elf lathe. Made in the Highlands of Scotland, this lathe used a Sturmey Archer hub.
Model Parsons steam turbine from the 1938 Glasgow Empire Exhibition.
1904 plan of the Boiler Shop at the John Brown yard in Clydebank.
Plan of a 60-ton travelling crane, maker unknown.
Model steam engine, maker unknown.
Padded box for carrying nitroglycerine samples, from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Press pack for the opening of Chapelcross nuclear power station.
Steam engine blueprint, Fullerton, Hodgart & Barclay of Paisley, for Paton’s of Johnstone.
Acetylene lamp, probably from a shipyard.
Board from a cordite pressing house, Nobel’s Explosives.
Testing data of Yarrow boilers and Howden equipment on battleships, 1903.
Advertising Lantern Slides from Paton’s of Johnstone.
Certificate from The United Society of Boiler Makers and Iron & Steel Ship Builders.
Howden’s Paperwork
No Smoking sign and an old school poster of the Clyde docks, 1950s.
Half hull model of the Invincible, built by Tod & Macgregor in 1844.
Medal struck by Nobel’s Industries to commemorate the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.
Gunpowder carrying box from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Rollo Elf lathe. Made in the Highlands of Scotland, this lathe used a Sturmey Archer hub.
Section of submarine cable, cut underwater by shaped charge.
GCHQ Trade Unions badge.
Poster from Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton.
Pay token from Robert Elder’s Fairfield Shipyard.
Printing plate of Paton’s Mill, Johnstone.
Plate from a 5 Ton Butters Brothers crane.
Plates from Drysdale pumps. Founded in 1874, Drysdale & Co made pumps and other engines.
Medal struck by Nobel’s Industries to commemorate the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.
Magazine cover from 7th May 1938.
Fire warning sign from the Kilbagie Paper Mill.
Plan of the Guardbridge Paper Mill, Fife.
Small model steam engine, maker unknown.
Drawings from Howden’s Engineering Works, Glasgow.
Plan of a 60-ton travelling crane, maker unknown.
German model coal and hydro power stations. Some assembly needed.
ools from Lang Lathes. Lang’s of Johnstone were founded in 1873, and lasted until 1979.
Sigg aluminium advertising token for HF Nicholls, Gallowgate, Glasgow.
No Smoking sign and an old school poster of the Clyde docks, 1950s.
Glass lantern slides from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Painting of The Finnieston Crane by DC Ferguson, 1985.
Emergency breathing apparatus from a coal mine.
A beautiful drawing of a water turbine for Paton’s Mill, Johnstone.
Electrical test meter from Nobel’s Explosives.
Model paper machine from Caldwells mill, Inverkeithing.
Demonstration of explosive sintering, from Nobel’s Explosive Works, Ardeer.
A Bakelite model of Tait Tower from the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow.
Dummy detonators and connectors from Nobel’s Explosives.
Letter opener from Nobel’s. The top is in the shape of a press.
Plan of a 3-masted iron sailing ship built by D & W Henderson of Partick.
Measuring gauge from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer. Not sure what this would’ve measured.
1913 drawing from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Ballistic mortar slide rules from Nobel’s Explosives.
Plan of a Davies Patent Water Tube Boiler.
Plan of a 60-ton travelling crane, maker unknown.
High speed explosion photos from Nobel’s Explosives, taken with a rotating mirror camera.
Ballistic mortar slide rules from Nobel’s Explosives.
Enamel sign for a Novox respirator, from a paper mill.
Phoenix Iron Works One Penny token, 1813.
Plan of a water turbine for Paton’s mill, Johnstone.
A War Service badge from the Fairfield shipyard – now BAE Systems Govan.
Plan of a 3-masted iron sailing ship built by D & W Henderson of Partick.
Pay token from Robert Elder’s Fairfield Shipyard.
Detonator tins from Nobel’s Explosives, Glasgow.
Brochure from the opening of Kincardine Power Station.
Advertising Lantern Slides from Paton’s of Johnstone.
Hard hat from Yarrow Shipbuilders, now part of BAE Systems.
Plan of a 3-masted iron sailing ship built by D & W Henderson of Partick.
Pay check token from Bertram’s of Sciennes.
Model steam engine, maker unknown.
A Sine Bar from the toolroom of the North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow.
Detonator pliers from Nobel’s Explosives, Ardeer.
Woven silk diploma from the Glasgow Technical College.
Plan of a water turbine for Paton’s mill, Johnstone.
Founded in 1880, this company specialised in large glass roofs, they’re responsible for the roofs of Glasgow’s Central Station and Edinburgh’s Waverley Station.
Detonator tins from Nobel’s Explosives, Glasgow.
Sigg aluminium advertising token for HF Nicholls, Gallowgate, Glasgow.
Brochure from the opening of Kincardine Power Station.
Plan of a water pipe at the Caldwell’s paper mill in Inverkeithing.
Brochure from the opening of Kincardine Power Station.
Plan by William Arrol & Co for the John Brown shipyard.
ools from Lang Lathes. Lang’s of Johnstone were founded in 1873, and lasted until 1979.
1946 Sailmaker’s Palm, used to push needles through tough fabric.
A beautiful drawing of a water turbine for Paton’s Mill, Johnstone.
Hand coloured image of a large fan made by Howden’s of Scotland Street, Glasgow.
Everett Edgecombe Voltmeter/Ammeter
ools from Lang Lathes. Lang’s of Johnstone were founded in 1873, and lasted until 1979.
A large and very, very heavy plate from a crane made by Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd.
Phoenix Iron Works One Penny token, 1813.
Enamel badge from the News International Wapping disputes in 1986.
Plan by William Arrol & Co for the John Brown shipyard.
A Magnadet Exploder from Nobel’s Explosives Co. Ltd.
Brass handle made by Simpson Lawrence & Co of Glasgow.
Model Parsons steam turbine from the 1938 Glasgow Empire Exhibition.
Advertising Lantern Slides from Paton’s of Johnstone.
German model coal and hydro power stations. Some assembly needed.
Miscellany from the Meadowside Shipyard at Partick, Glasgow.
Plan of IBM Greenock.
1904 plan of the Boiler Shop at the John Brown yard in Clydebank.
Plan of a water pipe at the Caldwell’s paper mill in Inverkeithing.
Brochure from the opening of Kincardine Power Station.
Blueprint of a crane hook made by the famous Glasgow firm of Sir William Arrol & Co.
Plessey PDRM-82 Radiation Meter.
Plan of a water turbine for Paton’s mill, Johnstone.
Drawings from Howden’s Engineering Works, Glasgow.
Model steam engine, maker unknown.
Sterling machine for bevelling the corners of books, made in Portland, Maine.
Ballistic mortar slide rules from Nobel’s Explosives.
1946 Sailmaker’s Palm, used to push needles through tough fabric.
Press pack for the opening of Chapelcross nuclear power station.
German model coal and hydro power stations. Some assembly needed.
