Factory??

[Leeny.jack]

Does anyone have a clue about where this factory is or what kind of factory it is?? I’m assuming it is in Glasgow, Scotland.

[Girl Guide]

Welcome to RootsChat 

Why the assumption that it is in Glasgow?  What is your connection to the photograph?

I brightened the photo considerably and there appears to be rolls? of something, possibly in containers in the background.

Unfortunate that the white coloured board on the left is totally unreadable.

[Andrew C.]

Is that a turntable they are standing on with tracks, some sort of heavy engineering factory?

[Girl Guide]

I did wonder if it was a turntable/tracks as well Andrew.

Certainly something on which large containers could be moved from inside to outside.

Unfortunate that it is not a clear and well focused photo.  Difficult to date it as well.

[Andrew C.]

I don’t think it is that old perhaps early fifties, obviously lots of engineering firms in Glasgow at that time.

[mazi]

Lightening it a lot seems to show, on the right,behind the gent with the overcoat what looks to me to be a ship's capstan on a wheeled trolley, this has a gearwheel on the bottom, so is a powered capstan,
It’s big, not part of a little machine .


Mike

[mazi]

Just had a look at “ships capstans” on Google, looks reasonable, but I would think things like this came from a general heavy engineering firm or foundry and would be supplied to a shipbuilder as a finished item.

Mike

[Andrew C.]

Can’t really make it out but rather than a capstan perhaps a metal press?