Clyde+Cooperage+Company+Limited

=Clyde Cooperage Company Limited=

Company Number:SC001403 Date of Incorporation: 4 November 1884 Contact Details: 2500 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G15 6RW Operating Details: Active Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Non-trading company (7499) previously manufacture of barrels (2040) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glasgow, now West Calder Area of Operation: Products used across Scotland


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

Records
Held By: Privately held. Please contact National Register of Archives for Scotland for access held under NRAS289 and NRAS4242

Scope/type: Minute Book 1884-present; Operations Ledger 1884-1953; Balance sheets; miscellaneous letters. Some paperwork on salary details and operational requirements. Conditions governing access/use: please contact NRAS for details

Related records: some court records involving this company held at National Archives of Scotland. There are photos of the original site available at Scotland’s Places

Company History
This company was initially set up by Robertson and Baxter, a large distillery firm that has its origins in Glasgow in the 1850s. The purpose of the company was to meet the cooperage needs of the whisky distilleries owned by Robertson and Baxter. Robertson and Baxter now form part of the Edrington Group. This group succeeded Robertson and Baxter as the owner of its various subsidiaries in the 1960s when ‘The Three Miss Robertsons’ restructured their inheritance. Clyde Cooperage is still an active company within this group, and still provides casks and coopering services to the other parts of the company. The Edrington Group blends whisky for leading brand names, such as Cutty Sark and Lang Supreme.

The company was initially based at Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow before moving to Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire and then West Calder, West Lothian. The cooperage still conditions and repairs whisky barrels in the traditional manner using hand tools and manufacturing techniques. Initially these casks were used for Spanish sherry or American bourbon, and hold the whisky as it matures, following reconditioning at the site.

[] contains details of current operations [] for photo of cask being reconditioned. Both sites accessed March 2011