Records of A & J Faill Ltd, civil engineering contractors and quarrymasters, Glasgow, Scotland

• Reference:GB 248 UGD 210
• Dates of Creation:1939-1975
• Name of Creator:
  A & J Faill Ltd (civil engineering contractors and quarrymasters: 1858-1990: Glasgow, Scotland)
• Physical Description:
  1 volume
  There are no physical characteristics that affect the use of this material.

• Scope and Content

  • Journal 1939-1975

• Administrative / Biographical History

  A & J Faill Ltd was founded in 1858  in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland, where the company operated as quarriers. In A & J Faill Ltd 1883,  took on new premises on Great Clyde Street, Glasgow. The company owned Westfield whinstone quarry at Croy, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and leased Craigpark Quarry, Glasgow; Furnace and Crarae quarries, Loch Fynne, Argyll & Bute; Scotland; and Bonawe and Craigpoint granite quarries, Loch Etive, Argyll & Bute. With the death of J Faill, jnr, in 1936  , A & J Faill Ltd dissolved the quarrying side of the business yet retained the company name. The company was responsible for laying most of the tramlines in Glasgow, as well as acting as paving contractors to Glasgow Corporation. In 1984  the company went into receivership and was dissolved in 1990.

• Arrangement

  This collection consists of only one item

• Access Information

  Open

• Acquisition Information

  Deposit: A Young, McLelland & Moores : Glasgow : 1985 : ACCN 0061

• Other Finding Aids

  Digital file level list available in searchroom

• Alternative Form Available

  No known copies

• Conditions Governing Use

  Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the University Archivist

  Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents

• Appraisal Information

  This material has been appraised in line with normal procedures

• Custodial History

  Received directly from the liquidators

• Accruals

  None expected

• Related Material

  See source list on Housing and Construction Industry available via Glasgow University Archive Services homepage at http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk

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• Bibliography

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• Additional Information

  This material is original

  Revised by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 9 July 2002

• Subjects

  Civil engineering

  Transport engineering

• Corporate Names

  A & J Faill Ltd 1858-1990

• Geographical Names

  Glasgow, Scotland