Pennycook+Patent+Glazing

=Pennycook Patent Glazing and Engineering Co Ltd=

Company Number: SC000986 Date of Incorporation: 27 August 1880 Contact Details: Cambusnethan House, Linnet Way, Strathclyde Business Park, Bellshill, ML4 3NJ Operating Details: Dissolved 20 September 2002 Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Non trading company (7499), previously glazing contractor (4544) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: St Mungo Works, Bishopbriggs, later Bellshill Lanarkshire Area of Operation:


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: Glasgow City Archives GB 243 TD 197

Scope/type: Articles of association, 1880; Minutes, 1880-1947; Records relating to shares, 1881-1948; Directors' reports, 1881-1947; Patent records, 1870-1938; Case papers in a petition in the Court of Session, Nov. 1933, Feb. 1934; Cash books, 1880-1907; Order books, 1907-1946; Cost books, 1897-1942; Tender for glazing Waverley Station, Edinburgh, 1896; Illustrated catalogues of Pennycook's system, with photographs of completed contracts, undated; Photographs of completed contracts, c 1900-1940, undated.

Conditions governing access/use: Open to the public. Access from the Mitchell Library archive, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday (until 8pm on Tuesday). Items cannot be produced one hour before closing, or between 1pm and 2pm.

Related records: Some court records in the National Archives of Scotland.

Company History
Pennycook Patent Glazing & Engineering Co was incorporated in 1880. The company pioneered the use of roof trusses and steel stanchions to create large glazed and waterproof roofs without using putty. Contracts completed included Sweetmeat Automatic Delivery Co, Ltd, Glasgow, Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Central Station, Glasgow, Caledonian Railway Station, Dundee, Portland Hotel, London, People's Palace Hall, Belfast, London Public Baths, Wandsworth, London, Music and Art Galleries, Evere, France, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Ruyksmuseum, Amsterdam. At its dissolution in 2002 it was a public limited company trading operating from Bellshill in Lanarkshire.

Information supplied by Glasgow City Archives, reused with permission