William Ralston & Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, Commercial Road, Glasgow.
Ralston was a Scottish manufacturer of brick making machines in the mid to late 19th century.
1853 – Established.
Below – 1873 – 1874 – William Ralston & Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, Commercial Road, Glasgow.
31/05/1874? – Product card – William Ralston and Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, Commercial Road, Glasgow.
Below – 13/10/1876 – Roseknowe Brickworks Hangingshaw Cathcart Plant sale Ralston.
Below – 1881 – Ralston & Sons brick making machine.
Below – 1882 – William Ralston & Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, 200 Commercial Road, Glasgow.
Carr and Urwin, manufacturers, Glasgow – (Note – SBH – I have created this page as the 1880 advert below suggests that Car and Urwin manufactured brick making machines in the Glasgow area however I can find no other evidence to suggest this and all references to this company are from the Newcastle, England area….
1845 – John Young from Newton on Ayr, in collaboration with Robert Boyle produced a machine called the ‘Ayrshire Double Acting Patent Tile Machine’. This was adapted from an earlier machine patented by the Marquis of Tweeddale. The device was capable of producing 20,000 drain tiles per day. – Unknown source. 08/10/1845 – Dumfries and Galloway Standard…
Canmore Below – 22/02/1936 – The Scotsman – Fire at Rosebank Ironworks, Cambuslang – James Mitchell & Co. Below – 02/09/1953 – Dundee Courier – Brick machine manufactured by James Mitchell & Co was assembled at Bannockburn and despatched to England. 1968 – Herbertshire Brick Works, Denny – The site had a Mitchell plastic brick…
Below – 02/02/1855 – Kelso Chronicle – To brick and tile makers – For sale – A double-ended tile and brick machine with X dies of different dimensions all got up in the newest style and best system for making and jointing drain pipes and tiles, also common and hollow bricks. The above machine is…
1874 -75 – William Aitken, brickmaker and builder, Roseknowe Brickwork, Hangingshaw; House, 18 Calder St. (Govanhill). Below – 13/10/1876 – Roseknowe Brickworks Hangingshaw Cathcart Plant sale Ralston.
Dunaskin Brick Works, Dalmellington aka Waterside Works. Info Canmore – Original brickworks built for the manufacture of firebricks in the mid-19th century and superseded (probably about 1930) by a new brickworks of the same name, which incorporated the blowing-engine house and two chimneys of the former Dalmellington Ironworks Dunaskin Fire Clay Works –Dalmellington – Dunaskin…
I have added this post for interest’s sake. I do not know if Mr Arthur was Scottish but he invented an early brick making machine that made bricks by pressure only. 08/08/1857 – Paisley Herald and Renfrew Advertiser – Highland Agricultural Society Show – Among the new machines is one for the novel purpose of…
09/07/1853 – Patents for inventions. Abridgements of specifications. No 1642 – Mark Sprot and Robert Denholm — Relates to the manufacture of pipes and tubular articles from clay or plastic materials, wherein the sockets or end junction pieces of such articles are formed at the time of moulding or shaping the plain portion of the pipe…
John Ainslie was a farmer from Redheugh, Nr Dalkeith Scotland. in the 1840’s he invented and patented brick and tile making machines. He also invented and patented a procedure and method for drying and burning bricks using kilns which were of the ‘continuous’ type. This was some 9 years prior to Hoffman continuous kilns appearing…
West Bank Old brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh and Esperston, Midlothian aka Valleyfield Brickworks? 1765 – Cassell’s Old and New Edinburgh – In 1765, Mr William Jamieson, the feuar under Baron Muir, discovered near the Figgate Burn a valuable bed of clay, and on the banks of the stream he erected first a brick…
