Love this Art Deco style tiled entrance to the former India of Inchinnan building in Renfrewshire. Designed Gilbert Wallis, it was built in 1929 for the India Tyre Company.
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This type of bridge was first invented by William Scherzer in the 1890s and works by using a rolling action to raise and lower the roadway. This is made easier by the positioning of a large counter weight mounted at one end above the tracks on which it rotates up and down (visible in the top middle of the photo).
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The White Cart Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge at Inchinnan just to the West of Glasgow. Built in 1923 by Sir William Arrol and Co, it's one of only two rolling lift bridges left in Scotland.
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While four airships were built, the Admiralty cancelled its contract in 1919, and the station closed in 1922. The India Tyre Company purchased the site in 1927 and re-purposed it to make tyres, including the construction of this office building.
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A rather stylish art deco office building at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire. Designed Gilbert Wallis, it was built in 1929 for the India Tyre Company. The site was originally home to the Inchinnan Airship Construction Company, created by the shipbuilders William Beardmore and Company in the 1916 to build hydrogen-filled airships for the British Admiralty.
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