Mackenzie and Moncur
Mackenzie and Moncur Ltd, ironworkers of Edinburgh
Main works in Balcarres Street, Edinburgh. Also owned a foundry in Slateford Road. Agents in Glasgow And Edinburgh.
1890 The iron foundry was opened.
Major glasshouse builders in Edinburgh specialising in large structures and mechanical systems (heating etc.) for hothouses. Contemporaries and rivals of Charles D. Young in Edinburgh. Range of products: Conservatories, hothouses, gates, fountains, garden chairs, iron cisterns, espaliers, summer houses, verandas, pavilions, wrought iron boilers & fittings, gratings, pipes, finials, crestings, radiators, domestic engineering appliances, iron stairs. Specialised in the manufacture of pavement 'lights' and municipal castings.
1894 Mackenzie and Moncur Limited was incorporated, with capital of £60,000, to purchase and acquire the business of Mackenzie and Moncur, hothouse builders, heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineers, Upper Grove Place, Edinburgh, No.43 Victoria Road, Glasgow, and No.50 Camden Road, Glasgow.[1]
1961 Heating and electrical engineers, hothouse builders, ironfounders and oil burning apparatus installers. 400 employees. [2]
1976 The company was dissolved.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Glasgow Herald 24 November 1894
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- ↑ National Records of Scotland BT2/1976/10
- [1] Scottish Iron Work