J. G. Carrick & Co.

Ventilation contractors

James Carrick was an employee of established tinsmiths James McHaffie in 1883–4, when he took over the company, based at Glasgow Metallic Works, Calderwood Street, off Parliamentary Road. 1 About 1895 they moved to 23 North Wallace Street, where they made street lamps, packing cases, ventilators, 'oil casks ... and packages of every description in tin, zinc'. 2 In 1901, their contracts included supplying 500 typewriter covers to a Shettleston factory at 4s 9d each. 3 By 1905, they had expanded into printing and decorating on tin, and Carrick had moved to the up-and-coming professional suburb of Bearsden. 4 In the 1930s, they advertised their sheet metal containers to include electrical wiring junction boxes, and were still trading in 2005. 5

Notes:

1: Post Office Glasgow Directory, 1883–4, 1884–5.

2: Post Office Glasgow Directory, 1895–6.

3: Scotsman, 25 November 1903, p. 11.

4: Post Office Glasgow Directory, 1905–6.

5: Scottish Municipal Directory, 1933, p. A79; Scotsman, 16 April 2005, Scotsman Digital Archive, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/glasgow/Two-workers-badly-hurt-in.2618655.jp [accessed 15 September 2011].

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