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Goldie and McCulloch / Babcok and Wilcox , Southworks in Cambridge Ontario.

Jim Christie

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Goldie and McCulloch / Babcock and Wilcox , South Works in Cambridge Ontario.

Last Weekend I traveled to Cambridge Ontario for a family function .
Cambridge is the amalgamated city of the former towns of Galt ,Hespeler and Preston.
The area was home to several Canadian machine tool makers such as McGregor Gourlay , McDougall , Preston Machinery & C.M.C. that have been mentioned in other threads on this forum .
Recently Asquith showed a generating set built by Goldie & McCulloch in post # 11 this thread.
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/sternwheelers-bc-268581/
And in post # 15 I added some more links about them .
Since I had a couple of hours to spare I thought I would try and check out the Goldie and McCulloch South Works that I had found this link to .
About Southworks | Southworks History
I really only scratched the surface before I ran out of time but I did manage to get a few pictures of the outside equipment and find a couple of interesting books in the massive antique shop .
To start here are some overall outside pictures and a link to the Google Street View http://goo.gl/maps/iTnWg
 

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There is a large press brake at the entrance to the parking lot that I couldn’t seem to find a manufacturer’s name on since I figured it was covered over by the commercial sign .
I had seen a Brown Boggs catalogue on archive.org a while ago and thought I would check to see if it might be one of their machines since they were made about 50 Km. or 30 miles away in Hamilton .
It would seem that the one in the link from 1912 that I copied into the pictures is very close to the one in the parking lot.
The Brown, Boggs Company Limited

1912 Brown, Boggs Catalogue
The Brown, Boggs Company Limited : Brown Boggs Company : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
 

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I took a picture of the bronze plaque that tells about the Bertram punch and some pictures of the punch .
I found an ad for what I think may be a slightly larger Bertram Punch from 1913 with a slightly different drive setup here .
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1913)
 

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Thanks, Jim. It's always good to see what's happened to engineering factories, especially when the developers show some sympathy towards their former use.

I went to a place in Vancouver (Granville Island) which has managed to reinvent itself as a very pleasant place to visit, re-using some of the old buildings, and also retaining some established manufacturing companies alongside the craft workshops, brewery, shops, cafes, etc. I may post more about this place elsewhere, so as not to hijack this thread.

I spotted this Goldie & McCulloch pump at the Britannia Mine Museum, BC:-

JD Goldie01.jpg

Another pump from Galt, by the R McDougall Co, at Hedley Heritage Museum, BC:-

JD Hedley02.jpg
 
There were two other Niagara punch presses outside.
I believe they are referred to as O.B.I or open bed incline presses .
Some who knows more about stamping than I do can perhaps elaborate on why the presses can be inclined but I think it has something to do with allowing either the completed part or the scrap left over to fall out of the die to the back of the press when the material is fed in in a strip from the side allowing for automatic operation where an operator doesn’t have to put in the individual blanks and remove them by hand one at a time .
 

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Thanks Asquith ,
It is interesting to know that there are other of the company’s products still around the country .
There was part of a generator out side as well but it was not one of Goldie and McCulloch’s but rather one from Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto Lt. from Trafford Park Manchester .
A place you will know doubt know a lot more about than I do .
Regards,
Jim
 

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I took a fast trip through the antique shop.
You enter on the upper level at the back and it extends forward as far as the joint in the roofline to the left of Dickies sign .
There is an old overhead crane above the entrance I’m not sure if it is all original but it looks like a wooden beam with 1 ton painted on it .
you can’t see the 1 in the picture.
I took a picture about half way back looking back to the entrance to give an idea of what is inside and roughly an equal amount of stuff if you looked around 180 degrees .
If I had been there longer I might have found a few more items of interest to folks here.
One could pass a considerable number of hours to see it all and I that doesn’t include all the shops downstairs that I didn’t go in .
I took one picture from the door in one of the lower level shops to give an Idea what its like .
 

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There were some tool boxes and tools among the items for sale that I took pictures of
 

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OBI=Open Back Inclinable.

They tilt over to allow for material coming in from the sides that isn't on a horizontal plane, or for operator comfort, if that's possible.
 

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Hi Jim,

I was at the Southworks on the weekend, The older gentleman at the desk of the antique shop said that crane was c1865. The other side of the former plant has 2 cranes, electric but still very old, they are 25 and 40 ton, It looks as if they are still operational. The plant is described here,

About Southworks | Southworks History

Neat reuse of an old industrial site , glad they didn't tear it down. Galt (Cambridge) has an awesome downtown, and is a pretty well preserved example of an early manufacturing center with tons of stone buildings.
 
Steve,
Thanks for adding the information about the cranes .
I didn’t have enough time to see everything when I was there .
Sorry to take so long to reply .
I had noticed your post a while ago but got busy with other things .
I hope to visit Cambridge again some day and take a longer look at the Southworks and other old industrial sites
Here are some more links I had found and saved about other Goldie and McCulloch products since I last posted in this thread.
https://archive.org/details/cihm_46493
Canadian machinery and metalworking

Canadian machinery and metalworking
Goldie & McCulloch manufacturers of steam engines, boilers, mill gearing, and furnishings of every description [microform] : also the well-known wheelock automatic engines, high pressure, compound and compound condensing (1889)
http://archive.org/details/cihm_90256

Two years of war as viewed from Ottawa : a special issue of 'The Civilian' giving some account of the war work of the Civil Service of Canada, 1914-1916

Canadian machinery and metalworking

Regards,
Jim
 








 
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