Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

H. and R. Baird

From Graces Guide

of Old Basin Foundry, Glasgow

1782 Business established

1841 Mr. Turnbull and two of the heads of other departments took over the goodwill of H. and R. Baird and made a start in new premises. See Turnbull, Grant and Jack

1847 Sale of a high pressure beam engine of eighteen horsepower; cylinder eighteen inches diameter, made in 1840. by H. & R. Baird, with Boiler and Pumping Apparatus[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Glasgow Courier 12 January 1847