Left about £1.5M which he had made on steel futures and R Maclaren &
Co. He was told that he shouldn't leave it all to his children, to
which he replied that if they had as much fun spending it as he had
had making it then they were welcome to it!

Obituary in The Institute of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland Vol.
32 p. 322

Article form Industries of Glasgow" (published 1888)

History of ROBERT MACLAREN & COMPANY LTD. (later Maclaren Controls) by
Ian Garnet Maclaren1962) see under notes in Norman Maclaren 1880 to
1936

Obituary in The Institute of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland Vol.
32 p. 322 Mr. ROBERT MACLAREN was elected as a Member of the
Institution in lS59, and although not taking any active part in the
work of the Institution, was well known amongst engineers as an iron
founder, his works for the manufacture of castings for water supply,
both pipes and specials, turning out large quantities of these, both
for home and foreign orders. Mr. Maclaren died at Glasgow on 2nd
April, lSS9

Article form Industries of Glasgow" (published 1888) was a description
of Robert MacLaren & Co. indicating it was Robert senior and not his
son who founded the firm in 1858.

Robert Maclaren & Co., Robert Maclaren & Co., Iron Founder and
Manufacturer of patent cast-iron pipes, Eglinton Iron Works, Port
Eglinton. Among the greatest of Glasgow's iron industries stands that
carried on at the above address by Messrs. Robert Maclaren &; Co., a
firm whose name has become most closely and creditably associated with
the manufacture of all classes of cast-iron pipes for gas, water, and
sanitary purposes.

This eminent house was founded in 1858 by Mr. Robert Maclaren, who had
a thorough training in the important branch of iron founding to which
he has subsequently devoted his energies, and whose experience and
knowledge have been applied to the marked improvement of the class of
goods he has made it his business to produce. The firm commenced
operations at their present fine premises, the Eglinton works, which
have been enlarged and altered from time to time to meet the
requirements of an ever-growing trade, which now cover no less an area
than 26,000 square yards of ground, and employ from six to eight
hundred hands, according to the amount of work in process of
execution.

To describe in detail the many interesting phases and features of this
thoroughly typical establishment would carry us far beyond the limits
of this necessarily concise sketch. It is, perhaps, sufficient to
record that there is no department in the entire works in which the
productive facilities and capacity have not been brought up to the
very best modern standard; and in not a few instances there are
manifested certain methods, arrangements, and conveniences of an
unique order, the outcome and result of this firm's long and
exhaustive experience applied to the best and most effective purpose.

The mechanical and general equipment of the Eglinton Iron Works is
beyond praise. It represents the perfection of adequacy and efficiency
that can only be attained after years of labour and experiment, and
illustrates the laudably intelligent use Messrs. Maclaren and Co. have
made of every resource brought within their reach by the gradual and
continuous development of the industry they control.

The situation of the works completes the sum total of their
recommendation as an industrial centre, and the railway lines running
through them, coupled with their proximity to the river wharfage,
afford every desirable facility of transport and shipments. About
three-fifths of the area covered by the works is devoted to the
purposes of yards, and constitutes storage ground for many thousands
of tons of cast-iron pipes of all kinds and sizes, complete and
finished, and ready for shipment to any quarter of the globe.

The Mercantile Age, referring to Messrs. Maclaren and Co.'s
establishment, in a recent issue, says: '`Their works, as we have
said, are replete with everything that science has dictated for the
ablest construction of their specialties, and their reputation has
long been firmly established with foreign Governments and
corporations, as well as those at home, and we are glad to bear this
tribute of praise in acknowledgment of their untiring energy,
excellent workmanship, and business-like transactions." Messrs.
Maclaren ~ Co. are among our greatest manufacturers of iron pipes.
They are, in fact, specialists in this most important industry, and
their productions in gas and water-pipes of every description have a
reputation that is international.

The maintenance of that reputation and its consistent extension and
enhancement now constitutes the industrial and commercia1 object of
the firm; and to this end there is no device or plan that skill,
science, or experience can suggest to facilitate the operations of the
Eglinton Works or improve the character of their unsurpassed
productions that is not at once adopted and actively employed by the
house. Such a policy of progressive enterprise can have but one
result, beneficial alike to those pursuing it and to the world-wide
public in whose interests it is developed and adhered to. Messrs.
Robert Maclaren & Co. control a trade of universal range and immense
magnitude: Their pipes for water and gas supply and for various
sanitary uses are in demand among all civilised nations, and are
shipped in ever-increasing quantities to every quarter of the globe.

Untiring energy, excellence of production, and straightforward
commercial principles are the united causes of this satisfaction,
effect; and the business now centered at the Eglinton Works is a
monument to the characteristic capacity and enterprise of a
representative Glasgow firm, and a credit to the great national
industry in which is a factor of first-rate importance.

This article was found thanks to the efforts of Jack Davis
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