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