Russell & Fullarton

MESSRS. RUSSELL & FULLARTON, Timber Merchants and Saw Millers, Saw Mills, Ardrossan.

    For half a century this has been one of the most important businesses in Ardrossan. It was originally founded by Messrs. Peter King & Co., to whom, about forty years ago, Messrs. Russell & Fullarton, the present owners, succeeded. The concern is a very comprehensive one, and is well suited to accommodate the several branches of the trade carried on. The firm are large timber merchants, and hold at all times a first-class stock of home, American, and Baltic timber, sawn or in log. The sawmills and drying sheds (to be shortly erected) cover an extensive space, and have every accommodation for a large business. Steam power is provided for driving the various sawing, planing, and turning machinery, the whole plant being of the newest and most improved type. The working staff is large, but its numbers vary with the season and the pressure of work.

    Messrs. Russell & Fullarton control an old-established trade with all parts of Scotland, and possess a valuable connexion with many of the leading shipbuilding and joinery firms of the western districts of the country. Their able management of the interests of the firm has brought them an exceptional measure of success, and in their hands there is no fear that this important enterprise will go back on its hitherto highly creditable record. The firm, we may add, is among the best reputed in the trade, and its proprietors are well-known and influential gentlemen.

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