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