Turning Shop - North End, Bertrams Limited, Sciennes

Category

Library Item

Item no

35017

Title

Turning shop - north end, Bertrams Limited, Sciennes

Artist / maker

Meisenbach, Georg

Date

1895

Size

12.3 x 14.7 cm

Type

Reproduction

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Bertrams Limited was a papermaking machinery engineers in Sciennes, Edinburgh. It was founded in 1821 by brothers George and William Bertram. Bertrams was very much a family orientated company, producing it's own Bertram Family Magazine which featured articles on their sports clubs, social activities and employee news.The company closed in 1985 mainly as a result of foreign competition and recession in the paper industry.

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