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Monklands Memories - Airdrie & Coatbridge areas
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Monklands Memories - Airdrie & Coatbridge areas
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Murray & Paterson 1979 - 1985 In 1979 Murray & Paterson built a new foundry beside their engineering works in Brown Street with improved facilities and larger capacity.
The company in Brown street
manufactured specialised Tube
bending equipment for mainly for
shipbuilding industry.
Another popular sight in the
machine shop was ships rudders
and stabilisers that were bored
out and steering shafts fitted.
The rudders were aligned with
tensioned piano wires.
Cast iron Kiln Cars for the
brick industry were made and
sent to Murray and |Paterson to
have high temperature cast iron
wheels fitted
Brown Street Dundyvan - note the Murray and Paterson factory at bottom of street - on mouse over shows Brown Street as it is today - enlargement below.
Terex the heavy earth moving
equipment manufacturer based in
Chapelhall sent rear and
intermediate drive axles (called
banjo's) to be machined.
Cast steel casings either for
pumps or turbines were machined
from rough castings on boring
machines.
At a workshop out the back of
the main factory there was a
small brass foundry. Vital for
supplying non ferrous metal
bearing castings to support the
Brown Street operation. The shop
was also capable of producing
"White Metal" bearings. It is
believed that the factory in
Kirkwood Street, Langloan was
solely casting specialised
bearing and Brown Street
machined the castings into
working bearings.
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