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