James Menzies and Co
The Phoenix Tubeworks, Dalmarnock Road, Rutherglen
1874 31st December: "THE Company carrying on business at No. 34 London Street, Glasgow, at Clydesdale Tube Works, near Rutherglen, and at No. 169 Upper Thames Street, London, as Malleable Iron Tube Manufacturers, under the Firm of EADIE, MENZIES, & EADIE, and whereof the Subscribers were the sole Partners, has this day been DISSOLVED of mutual consent.
The Iron Boiler Tube Department of the above Business will, under the Firm of JAMES EADIE & SONS, continue to be carried on at Clydesdale Tube Works, Rutherglen, and at No. 169 Upper Thames Street, London, by the Subscribers James Eadie, James Eadie, Junior, and Andrew Eadie.
The Gas Tube Department of the same Business will, under the Firm of JAMES MENZIES & COMPANY, continue to be carried on by the Subscriber James Menzies, in the same portion of the Works as at present — such portion to be hereafter termed the Phoenix Tube Works; and also at No. 169 Upper Thames Street, London.
All debts due by the late concern of Eadie, Menzies, & Eadie will be paid, and all accounts due to it will be uplifted, by the Firm of James Eadie & Sons."[1]
A very large tube works was established by James Menzies and Co, who had been wrought-iron tube makers on a smaller scale in Glasgow previously.
Pioneered the process of manufacturing solid drawn-steel tubes[2]
1887 On his father's death, Walter Menzies took on the management of the company, involving his 2 brothers, William and James, in the partnership
1898 A. and J. Stewart and Clydesdale acquired the business of James Menzies and Co becoming A. and J. Stewart and Menzies. By this amalgamation the Company acquired the plant for manufacturing solid drawn steel tubes, which Messrs. Menzies had been amongst the first to adopt.