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An employee operating machinery at Wm. Cummings & Son
Unknown, 1963, Photograph
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An employee operating machinery at Wm. Cummings & Son
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37382
Title
An employee operating machinery at Wm. Cummings & Son Ltd. box makers
Description
A young man operates a wood cutting machine in the workshop of Wm. Cummings & Son Ltd. box makers at Murano Place.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1963
Size
16.8 x 21.2 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh City Archives
William Cummings founded his box making business of Murano Place, Leith Walk in 1876. His son Andrew took responsibility for the business on his father's death in 1892 and changed the name to Wm. Cummings & Son Ltd in 1900. By 1907 the company employed 150 people across the different departments of sawmill, home and export case, confectionery box, tin lining, fancy paper box, leatherboard box and turning department. Under Andrew Cummings direction the firm continued, as his father had, to apply mechanical innovations and labour saving devices. The business was still in operation into the late 1960s.
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