A. Mabon & Co.

A. MABON & Co., Manufacturing Opticians, Electricians, and Model Makers, 10, West Campbell Street, Glasgow.

    The very important business extensively carried on by Mr. Mabon was established three years ago by him in Oxford Street, and has been located in the present premises for the past twelve months. A large floor is occupied as a general workshop, containing a special plant of delicate apparatus for screwing, turning, fitting, polishing, and other purposes. Mr. Mabon carries on a very extensive manufacturing business in all kinds of optical, electrical, and mathematical instruments and appliances, and turns out work of the greatest precision and finish. He devotes special attention to signalling apparatus for use in mines, steam indicators, and delicate engine-fittings of all descriptions. With the complete apparatus at his disposal, and his long experience of business, it is not to be wondered at that he has already secured a high standing in the trade and an enviable connection.

    Mr. Mabon’s great speciality, however, is model-making, and he has always a great amount of this class of work on hand. It requires knowledge and skill of no ordinary kind to turn out a model of one of our modern ocean leviathans to a given scale, with every detail of hull, furniture, and rigging exactly duplicated in miniature ; and must be ever regarded as a triumph of handicraft. Judging from the work to be seen in Mr. Mabon’s premises, both finished and in progress, his establishment has no superior in this line. A great number of the miniature blocks and tackle of ships are kept in stock, and deck guns and other items are made to pattern.

    Mr. Mabon is widely connected among the great shipbuilding firms on the Clyde and all over the United Kingdom. He attends personally to the conduct of the business and effectively directs all its operations. The general and highly representative patronage he enjoys in all departments indicates the keen appreciation of his talents in the quarters which may be supposed to contain the best judges. He is ably assisted by skilled experts, and is sole owner of this rapidly-expanding business.

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