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