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