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' Victoria Steam Chair Works, No 283 Orr Street, Glasgow This works was built in 1876-7 for A & J Harper, cabinetmakers, and was one of the largest furniture factories in Glasgow. It took advantage of the availability of recently invented woodworking machinery to supplant the traditional hand craft of cabinetmaking. This shows the works from the south-east. Its large scale is evident, as is its very basic design. It was sited in a densely industrialised area, so there was little incentive to spend money on display. The plainness of the design also suggests that the furnishings it made were for a working-class market. By the 1960s the works was occupied by John Paterson & Co Ltd, manufacturing chemists, whose 'Clensel' (seen painted on the gable of the building) product was a cleaning fluid based on sodium hypochlorite bleach. The works was demolished in the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. '

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