William MacLeod and Co.
WILLIAM MacLEOD & Co., Metal Merchants, Contractors for Gas and Water Apparatus, Pipes, and Furnishings, 56, Robertson Street, Glasgow. Telephone :—No. 1249. Telegrams:—“Pipes, Glasgow.”
The extensive use and application of metal fittings in almost every form of modern industry has afforded scope for the development of such a trade as that which is now so successfully and creditably represented by Messrs. William MacLeod and Co., whose establishment at 56, Robertson Street, constitutes an active centre of metal supply. The constant increases of this business from the commencement have necessitated consistent enlargement of the premises, and, with some 5,000 feet added recently to the already extensive floor-age space, the firm now possess warehouse accommodation to the extent of 14,000 feet, while, for the storage of cast-iron pipes, provision is made in separate premises at No. 28 of same street. In the basement floor of the warehouse the ample range of accommodation enables Messrs. MacLeod to submit to the choice and selection of their numerous customers collections of iron and metal merchandise under every condition of careful departmental arrangement.
This establishment is undoubtedly one of the best arranged in its immediate neighbourhood, and the ordinary visitor to the premises will at once observe and admire the carefulness and method by which the firm have endeavoured to simplify the work of the buyer. Prominent among the assortments submitted are all sizes of rolled sheet iron and iron hoops. Gas, water, and stove pipes and fittings, sanitary tanks, baths, and closets ; and among these special mention may be made of the clay enamelled bath as being the best style of bath in the market at the present time. Messrs. MacLeod specialise several cast-iron baths of Glasgow make and design, and in a variety of enamels. In the firm’s warehouses may be seen many improved forms of street lamps, copper tanks, zinc and copper sheeting ; and Messrs. MacLeod hold one of the best stocks in the City of underground cast-iron connecting pipes, or specials for gas and water mains, these being carefully arranged according to form, and of which the firm always hold in stock over 200 graduated sizes, and perhaps the greater part of their trade consists in the consignment of underground gas and water pipes to all parts of the world. Messrs. MacLeod command also an extensive trade in lead sheets and pipes, charcoal tinplates, tinned sheets, seamless-drawn copper tubes, rolled brass, non-conducting dry hair felt, welded bath boilers, welded hot water circulating tanks, ventilators and chimney cowls, sky-lights, kitchen sinks, sink traps, and all the furnishings for the plumbing, tinsmith, and slating industries.
A very important branch of their comprehensive business is represented in the supply of steam cocks and valves of brass or gun metal, and many admirable inventions in valves and gauges. The organ steam fog whistles are largely supplied from this house, as also are Bourdon’s patent pressure, vacuum, and compound gauges, made from patent delta metal. For such purposes as where steam is required at a lower pressure than in the boiler, nothing has been found to equal Auld’s patent improved reducing valve or regulators, supplied by Messrs. MacLeod to users of steam, and bearing the test of daily operation in the various departments of manufacturing activity, not only in Glasgow, but all over the country. Weston’s differential pulley blocks, Robinson’s syphon box or steam trap, and the London pattern of wrought-iron rope pulley blocks are all provided by Messrs. MacLeod, who also supply the Sight-feed engine lubricator, so thoroughly appreciated by all users of steam power.
In Messrs. MacLeod’s warehouse are also to be found many improved forms of wall fountains, wells, and pillar fountains, working to a pressure of 200 feet head. Their sluice valves are of the best construction and design, their pressure being accurately proved before leaving the works ; while similar care is directed to their improved rack and pinion gas valves and to the sound efficiency of their fire hydrants or mill cocks, Bateman and Moore’s patent ball hydrants, and various forms of fire extinguishing apparatus, in which all the latest improvements are effectively embodied.
It is scarcely possible within the space limits at our disposal to enter into the technical merits of every class of metal work supplied by Messrs. W. MacLeod & Co. There is perhaps no form of trade or industry to which their branches of merchandise do not apply ; and the firm’s illustrated catalogue forms an excellent index to a stock replete with moderately-priced specialities in weights of copper, brass, and iron, tin and lead pipes, mouth-pieces for speaking tubes, bell-mounting, and pumps (force and lift), yard, Colonial, and plumbers ; also holdfasts for gas and water pipes, sunlights and reflectors, india-rubber hose pipe and gas tubing, back pressure retaining valves, pipe-jointing tools, beer and spirit cocks, garden hose fittings, brass gas and water fittings, gas burners, and Thomas Glover & Co.'s dry gas meters, for which the firm are sole agents in Scotland.
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