Scottish shale Scottish shale

Douglas & Boag

Company number:
Not known
Share capital:
£?
Started:
c.1866
Finished:
c.1868
Registered office:

Unknown

Oil works:

One of a number of small-scale oil producers based at Avonhead Oil Works, supplied with shale by the Avonhead Coal Company.

  • Newspaper references
    • AIRDRIE
      Import Decision in the Shale Industry
      In case of the instance of the Avonhead Coal Company against Messrs Douglas & Boag. oil manufacturers. Coatbridge, concluding for damages of £1,000 for breach of agreement and failure to take delivery of certain quantities of gas coal and shale which the pursuer contracted to supply them with. Sheriff Logie, on Wednesday, in an interlocutor which went into the case at great length, gave decree for £650 besides interest and expenses.

      Hamilton Advertiser, 18th January 1868