Pott, Cassels and Williamson
of Java Street, Motherwell, maker of Sugar machinery and water-driven centrifugal separators
1893 Company formed by Gideon Pott, J. Houston Cassels, D. Cassels and ... It was one of the pioneers in Scotland in making machinery for the processing of sugar.
1896 John H. Cassel and David Y. Cassel of Pott, Cassels & Williamson were listed in Clarkes Motherwell Directory of 1896[1].
1899 From Engineering 1899/12/08: 'This company was formed about six years ago, the partners being Mr. Gideon Pott and Mr. Robert Williamson, who are associated with the engineering department, and Messrs. J. H. Cassels and D. Y. Cassels, who have been long identified with the iron trade of the West of Scotland. Mr. Pott brought to the business an extensive experience of the actual working of sugar machinery in most of the cane-growing countries of the world, as he has spent much time on sugar estates and in refineries abroad. His experience is therefore valuable to the clients of his firm. Mr. Williamson, who had been twenty years with sugar machinery-making firms in the West of Scotland, ....'[2]
1915 This firm reports that they have been fairly busy in the past year, and have sent sugar machinery all over the world to every sugar growing country. They have also supplied large plants to home refiners, ...[3]
1962 Mirrlees Watson and Co. Ltd., the parent firm of Potts, Cassels Ltd., would supply the condensers and heating equipment for the new Methill Generating Station.[4]
1963 The run-down of the former Pott, Cassels and Williamson plant, taken over some time ago by Mirrlees Watson and Coy., Ltd., Glasgow, is proceeding quietly, according to plan.[5]