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