James Murray & Co.

JAMES MURRAY & Co., Ship and Steam Ship Chandlers, Oil Refiners, and Engineers. Works : 31 and 33, Washington Street. Warehouse : 8, Anderston Quay, Glasgow.

    The large and highly influential ship chandlery, oil refining, engineers’ furnishing, and paint and varnish business conducted by the above-named firm was inaugurated in 1877, and now forms a conspicuous feature in the commercial system of Glasgow. The fine warehouse and offices, situated at No. 8, Anderston Quay, are well appointed and offer every convenience for the effective and economical working of the business. The works at 31 and 33, Washington Street, at all times present a busy and animated scene of industrial activity, and so complete are all the arrangements of the establishment and the facilities afforded by the large stock always on hand, that the firm stand in an unrivalled position to execute orders of any magnitude on the shortest notice and with economy and despatch.

    Messrs. James Murray & Co. are the sole importers of the “Empire Cylinder Oil for High-pressed Steam”. This valuable preparation is entirely free of acid, thereby effecting no injurious influence upon iron, and so impenetrable is it to the effects of heat, that it will withstand a test of 650° degrees Fahr.

    Messrs. James Murray & Co. are also the sole manufacturers of a highly valuable Boiler Tube Stopper, which obviates the trouble, annoyance, and danger resulting from leaky boiler tubes, which too often give little or no warning, and in many cases give out when it is dangerous to reduce the steam pressure. Messrs. James Murray & Co.'s Tube Stopper is easily applied and most effective, and we unhesitatingly say no steamship should be without them.

    The firm also manufacture a Patent Improved Boiler Tube Scraper and Brush, which greatly surpasses all previously constructed apparatus of the kind in the efficient removal of the thin scale which adheres to the interior of boiler tubes, causing so great a loss of heat. This invention has met with wide approval among engineers and promises to become of universal application.

    Messrs. James Murray & Co. are well known among engineers for their Patent Improved Sectional Self-Acting Metal Packing, for piston rods, valve spindles, and pumps, undoubtedly the most effective packing in the market for triple expansion engines and high-pressed steam. This packing is used by H.M. Admiralty, the Anchor Line, the Allan Line, the Cunard Line, the Inman Line, North German Lloyd’s, the White Star Line, and, indeed, all the leading steamship companies and engineering firms in the world.

    The trade which Messrs. James Murray & Co. control is of a widespread, influential, and steadily developing character, the firm having a first-class connection with the leading maritime concerns of the Kingdom. The business in every department receives the direct personal attention of the principal, and is conducted throughout with marked ability, energy, and enterprise. Mr. James Murray occupies a prominent position in business circles ; he is well known and highly respected in Glasgow, and never for a moment relaxes his exertions to maintain and extend the high reputation his establishment has held so long and so deservedly enjoyed.

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