Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2022
Date 17-Jun
Volume 229
Issue 4,693
Page 16
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title Riverside Museum Glasgow
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Visits a museum that preserves Glasgow's rich industrial past. Clyde built tall ship Glenlee, paddle steamer Waverley, A. & J. Inglis' Pointhouse yard, Henry Bell, Comet, side lever engine by Caird and Co., the Clyde - birthplace of the successful steamboat? Shipbuilding, Anchor Line, the Stobcross or Funnieston crane, ship models, locomotives, movable deck ferry, Robert Stephenson, Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway, Highland Railway Jones Goods, Glasgow and South Western Railway 0-6-0 tank engine, North British Railway 4-4-0 Glen Douglas, South African Railways 4-8-2, rails in the road, electric tramcar, Glasgow standard tramcar 779, Glasgow subway car, tensioning device for Glasgow cable subway, Glasgow's subway, Sir Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage, horse drawn vehicle, steam on the road, Sentinel steam lorry, Brown Bayley, Ruston and Hornsby traction engine Pride of Endrick, cars and commercial vehicles, Argyll 3/4hp Voiturette, Albion A3 tourer, a Galloway car designed by Dorothee Pullinger, Merryweather fire engine, bicycles and motorbikes, 1920 Victoria motorcycle. Kirkpatrick Macmillan, 248cc Gerrard motorcycle designed by J.A.Porter, Percy Pilcher's glider, aviation, some other attractions