The Port Street Works Forge in 1908
“One of the buildings on the left of the carriage entrance to the works is the old guard-house, part of Stirling's Town Wall, which is now occupied by a long steam boiler. Attached to this building is a modern engine-house with a high-class Corliss steam engine.
On a lower level, and close by, is the machine shop, with circular and band saws, turning lathes, and machines for making wheel timber. Parallel to this is the large airy smith shop, with ten forges, having a patent fanner blast. Here the forging, filing, and fitting of springs and all the other details of coach iron work goes on entirely by hand labour, the only machines being the verticals for boring. Opening from it is the large bodyshop, with benches all round, where the making of carriage and motor-bodies is going on. The other branches of under-carriage and wheel-making are also going on here.
There are nearly 200 different parts in a carriage (not reckoning bolts or screws), and ten different trades combined.”
Taken from an article published in the Stirling Observer on 27th May 1908.
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