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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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.

Muir, Mavor and Coulson

From Graces Guide

Previously Muir and Mavor

Joined by William Arthur Coulson

1889 Having installed lighting at Glasgow Post Office, Muir, Mavor and Coulson extended lighting to other municipal buildings[1] and installed a central electricity station in Little Hamilton St, near George Sq, Glasgow, to light nearby buildings; it was capable of lighting 3000 8 candle power lamps at a price of 3d per kWh[2]

c.1891 became Mavor and Coulson

1892 Having established electricity supply for various parts of Glasgow, including lighting the General Post Office, the firm's generating stations were taken over by the Glasgow Corporation and formed the nucleus of the Corporations electricity supply to the city. The business then turned to the design and manufacture of electrical machinery, playing a prominent part in the electrical developments of the 20th century.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, May 22, 1889
  2. The Times, May 22, 1889