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