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