Murray & Paterson 1979 - 1985
from information supplied by Kenneth McInnes
In 1979 Murray & Paterson built a new foundry beside their engineering works in Brown Street with improved facilities and larger capacity.
The company in Brown street manufactured specialised Tube bending equipment for mainly for shipbuilding industry.
Another popular sight in the machine shop was ships rudders and stabilisers that were bored out and steering shafts fitted. The rudders were aligned with tensioned piano wires.
Cast iron Kiln Cars for the brick industry were made and sent to Murray and |Paterson to have high temperature cast iron wheels fitted
Brown Street Dundyvan - note the Murray and Paterson factory at bottom of street - on mouse over shows Brown Street as it is today - enlargement below.
Terex the heavy earth moving equipment manufacturer based in Chapelhall sent rear and intermediate drive axles (called banjo's) to be machined.
Cast steel casings either for pumps or turbines were machined from rough castings on boring machines.
At a workshop out the back of the main factory there was a small brass foundry. Vital for supplying non ferrous metal bearing castings to support the Brown Street operation. The shop was also capable of producing "White Metal" bearings. It is believed that the factory in Kirkwood Street, Langloan was solely casting specialised bearing and Brown Street machined the castings into working bearings.