McInnes and McLachlan

McINNES & McLACHLAN, Gas Heating and Cooking Apparatus Manufacturers, Lamp Manufacturers, Tinsmiths and Gasfitters, 258, George Street, Glasgow.

    In recording in permanent form the history and position of the leading industrial enterprises of Glasgow, we are pleased to notice the above firm, which has gained a leading place among those associated with the modern developments of gas heating as applied to fires and cooking operations.

    The present proprietors, Messrs. David McInnes and Archibald McLachlan, entered into partnership May, 1889, with a view to carrying on a department of industrial enterprise which had previously been carried on by Messrs. R. and A. Main, the eminent firm of gas cooking and heating stove manufacturers. Mr. McInnes for sixteen years had held an important position in connection with the firm of Messrs. R. and A. Main, and the fact that they handed over a branch of their business to Mr. McInnes is an evidence of the esteem and confidence in which that gentleman was held by his former employers. Mr. McInnes had also previously been engaged with the great cooking stove firm of John Wright and Company, of Birmingham, where he acquired great experience in connection with his important art. Nor is Mr. McLachlan less experienced in his special line of business ; and work entrusted to the firm is certain to receive prompt and careful attention. In the hands of the present firm the business has greatly developed.

    Messrs. McInnes and McLachlan are widely known as first-class makers of gas apparatus, as general gas fitters, and tinsmiths. They also make a specialty of the manufacture of plain and fancy lamps for all purposes, and their services are in constant demand in this department of industry. The premises occupied comprise a large flat with very attractive show windows and showrooms to the front. Here may be seen in endless variety samples of every section of their work, from the neat and well-designed cooking stoves, which form one of its main features, down to the smallest item of gas fitting. In ordinary gas-heating stoves and lamps, all types and sizes are shown, many of no small artistic merit.

    To the rear of the show rooms are the business offices, and behind these the spacious and well-found workshops of the firm, manned with a large and busy staff. Great skill is displayed in the design and fitting up of their several specialities, and reflects no small credit on the workmen, many of whom must be no mean artists. We need hardly intimate that the trade done in all departments is unusually large. The firm are very favourably known in and around Glasgow, and both partners are well known besides as practical experts in the business. Mr. McInnes travels himself, and attends to the wants of the clients with great success, placing the whole of his extensive skill and experience at their service. The house holds a leading place in trade circles, where both partners are highly popular and respected. Under their skilful management and energetic control, and by their untiring exertions, the house has attained its present honourable position and a certain promise of still greater influence in the future in the rising department of industry to which it is devoted.

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