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