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    St Rollox Chemical Works was a industrial manufacturer of chemicals located in Glasgow, Scotland, that began in the Georgian era in 1799 and operated...
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    and proved to be a cheap and successful product. He opened the St Rollox Chemical Works, north of Glasgow, and production went from just 52 tons in 1799...
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    lost sight of the main business in his life, the St. Rollox chemical works. By the year 1832, St. Rollox was consuming thirty thousand tons of coal a year...
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    Glasgow Works, formerly the St Rollox Works, is a railway rolling stock heavy maintenance and repair works established in the 1850s in the Glasgow district...
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    began with the establishment of a chemical works by Charles Tennant on the newly opened Monkland Canal at nearby St. Rollox in 1799, which later became part...
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    infrastructure: the neighbourhoods of Sighthill (once the site of the St Rollox Chemical Works) and Townhead are to the west on the opposite side of the A803...
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  • June 1903) was a Scottish chemical engineer who became a partner and the technical manager of the St Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow. Mactear was known...
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  • Company's St Rollox Chemical Works, founded by Charles Tennant and at one time the largest chemical manufacturer in the world, used to dump waste chemicals (particularly...
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    World, A Hauf Stop, 20 July 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2022 "St. Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow". BBC Sport. Alamy. Retrieved 18 February 2019. "Tennant's...
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    entered the St Rollox chemical works, Glasgow which had been established by his grandfather Charles to produce bleaching powder and other chemicals, and went...
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