A. & R. Cochran

A. & R. COCHRAN, St. Rollox Flint Glass Works, Glasgow.

    Amongst the leading national industries represented in this great centre of commercial life the manufacture of glass goods holds a position of prominence and importance fully meriting conspicuous attention in these pages. One of the oldest and best known houses engaged in this trade is that of Messrs. A. & R. Cochran, of the St. Rollox Flint Glass Works, which, founded in 1830, has steadily increased and developed its resources since that date and now occupies a distinctly leading position in this branch of productive activity.

    The premises occupied by Messrs. Cochran are of spacious dimensions, the works covering an area of nearly two acres in extent, on which are erected the necessary buildings for manufacturing purposes. These include two large glass houses, mixing room, annealing and cutting and stencilling workshops, fully equipped with plant and appliances of modern construction for facilitating the various processes of the trade. There are also at the entrance of the works a fine suite of offices and handsomely appointed showroom displaying a splendid assortment of cut-glass table ware and beautifully designed crystal goods and a great variety of ornamental articles in glass. Here may also be inspected electric light globes, lamp globes, &c., in all the newest designs, for which the firm have earned special distinction and have established a wide reputation in the leading centres of demand at home and abroad.

    An adequate force of 200 hands is employed in the various departments of the works, under the efficient supervision of the principals, whose extended connection with the trade supplies a satisfactory guarantee for perfection in every detail of the administration of the undertaking. Messrs. Cochran have also centrally situated London showrooms at 28, Holborn Viaduct, for the convenience of their metropolitan customers, a large trade being done by the firm with the leading buyers, and shipping houses in the City.

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