Sharp & Cruickshanks

SHARP & CRUICKSHANKS, Registered Plumbers and Sanitary Engineers, 44, Dundas Street, City, Glasgow.

    Amongst the industrial arts which have more than other tended to secure the health of the community none rank in importance with that of the plumber and sanitary engineer, in whose skilled hands we find security against the approach of those insidious forms of disease arising from imperfect drainage or defects in precaution, attributable, too often, to bad or careless workmanship. In this direction the City of Glasgow has no necessity to complain of a lack of first-class firms devoted to this branch of industry, of whom we single out for special distinction the eminent house of Messrs. Sharp & Cruickshanks, Registered Plumbers and Sanitary Engineers, as fully representative in every sense.

    The business conducted by the firm is of old-established standing, having been founded forty years ago, and acquired a short time back by the present proprietors, Messrs. Walter Sharp & William Cruickshanks. The premises occupied by the firm are situated at 44, Dundas Street, City, and include spacious showroom, well supplied with samples of sanitary appliances, water and steam fittings, and other trade requirements, with warehouse and counting-house in the rear, the whole extending a considerable distance back to the North British Railway. The workshops are situated at 197, Dumbarton Road, and provide ample accommodation for the smiths and tinworkers employed by the firm in the production of the specialities manufactured at this branch. These include iron railings, heating apparatus, roof ladders, and general builders’ smith work; all classes of tinsmith work, steam fitting, &c. ; gas and hot water appliances, zinc work, and every branch of pneumatic, electric, and mechanical bell work and fixing speaking-tubes.

    An extensive connection has been established by the firm in the various departments, these gentlemen having secured some of the most important contracts in Glasgow and other parts of the country for the sanitary work and fitting of many of the public buildings, gentlemen’s mansions, and other edifices, and it is worthy of mention that the firm is now completing an important contract of this character at the Lunatic Asylum, Castlebar, co. Mayo, Ireland, and they have also been successful in securing the contract for the Lunatic Asylum, Mullingar.

    The services of a staff of first-class competent workmen are employed in the various departments of the business under the strict personal supervision of the principals, who have both had the advantage of a thoroughly practical training in the art, and skilled knowledge in every detail of sanitary science, as attested by their admission to the ranks of Registered Plumbers by examination by the Masters of the Worshipful Company of that craft in London. In conclusion we may add that Messrs. Sharp & Cruickshanks have, by their energetic management and determination to keep faith with their patrons, achieved a well-deserved success, and by their unremitting attention to all orders — which may be transmitted through the medium of the telephone, No. 1087 — well maintain the high reputation of the house for skilful workmanship and promptitude and punctuality of execution.

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