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J & E Robinson

Company number:
Not known
Share capital:
£?
Started:
c.1868
Finished:
c.1878
Registered office:

118 West Regent Street, Glasgow

Oil works:
Canalbank Oil Works
Loanhead Oil Works
Port Dundas Oil Works

Edwin Robinson was previously a partner in Robinson, Donald & Company listed in Glasgow Post Office Directories as "paraffin lamp manufacturers". After this firm was dissolved in 1864, he went into business with John Wilson Robinson (his brother?) trading initially (c.1867) as Robinson Brothers, and from c.1868 as J.&.E. Robinson. The firm's crude oil production was centred on (Loanhead) Glentore Oil Works, but included short-lived interests at other works in the Monklands. It appears that crude oil from Glentore was transported to Port Dundas for refining. Edwin Robinson's home at Craigelvan, Airdrie was within a few miles of Glentore. The Robinson brothers mining interests at Wester Glentore appear to have passed to the West Glentore Coal Company Limited in about 1879.

Partners

  • John Wilson Robinson
  • Edwin Robinson

Property

  • Canalbank Paraffin Oil Works
  • Loanhead (Glentore) Oil Works
  • Port Dundas Paraffin Oil Works
  • Wester Glentore Colliery

  • Newspaper references

      • Lanarkshire Farmers Society - Show at Hamilton - POULTRY, Hamburgh Cock and Hen. 1st Alex. White, 2nd Wm. Carmichal, 3rd Edwin Robinson, Glentore oil Works, by Aidrie.

      Glasgow Herald 27th May 1871

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      REGISTRATION COURT; Airdrie…The only case of interest was that of Mr E. Robinson and his brother, West Glentore . New Monkland . They were objected to on the ground that the West Glentore Coal Company (Limited ) were now in possession of the subjects which qualified them as electors . The assessor had excluded them from the list, and the position, therefore, was that Mr Nott was objecting to them when they were not on the roll as they bad not claimed while Mr Motherwell held that they should not have been struck off the roll . The Sheriff said that these gentlemen appeared as joint tenants of those minerals on the last roll by which the County Voters Act the assessor was bound on or before a certain day to make up and arrange in alphabetical order a list of all persons who shall appear by the valuation roll to become entitled to vote.

      Scotsman 23rd September 1879

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      Successive entries in the annual Glasgow Post Office directory

      • Robinson Brothers, paraffin oil manufacturers, refinery; Vulcan Oil Works, Port-Dundas, Crude Oil Works, coal and ironstone pits, Glentore, by Airdrie (1867)
      • Robinson, J.& E., paraffin oil manufacturers, refinery; Vulcan Oil Works, Port-Dundas, and Glentore Oil Works, by Airdrie (1868-70)
      • Robinson, J.& E., paraffin oil manufacturers, Canal bank, Port-Dundas, Glentore, Rochsoles & Avonhead, by Airdrie (1871-73 )
      • Robinson, J.& E., paraffin oil manufacturers, Canal bank, Port-Dundas, and Glentore, Airdrie (1874-75)
      • Robinson, J.& E., West Glentore Colliery, by Airdrie, office, 118 West Regent Street (1875)
      • Robinson, J.& E., West Glentore Colliery, by Airdrie, depot: Craighall station, Port Dundas; ho. Craigelvan by Airdrie; office 118 West Regent St. (1876)
      • Robinson, J.& E., West Glentore Colliery, by Airdrie, ho. Craigelvan by Airdrie; office 118 West Regent St. (1877-78)

      Residences

      • Robinson, Edwin ( of Robinson Brothers), house Craigelvan, Airdrie (1867)
      • Robinson, John, W. (of Robinson Brothers). House, Clydeview, Partick (1867)
      • Robinson, Edwin ( of J. & E. Robinson), house Craigelvan, Airdrie (1868-74 )
      • Robinson, John, W. (of J. & E. Robinson). House, Clydeview, Partick (1868-74 )

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