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Carron Company
IndustryIronworks
Founded1759; 265 years ago (1759) in Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
FounderJohn Roebuck
Defunct1982 (1982)
Fatewent into receivership in 1982
SuccessorCarron Phoenix
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Charles Gascoigne
ProductsCast iron products
Number of employees
2000

The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland. After initial problems, the company was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom. The company prospered through its development and production of a new short-range and short-barrelled naval cannon, the carronade. The company was one of the largest iron works in Europe through the 19th century. After 223 years, the company became insolvent in 1982 and was later acquired by the Franke Corporation, being rebranded Carron Phoenix.

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The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland. After initial problems...

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Carronade

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cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the mid-18th century...

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Charles Gascoigne

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Martin's, Birmingham, in 1759. Garbett was a founding partner in the Carron Company, also founded in 1759, and Gascoigne become a partner in the ironworks...

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Falkirk

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centre of the iron and steel industry, underpinned by the Carron Company in nearby Carron. The company made very many different items, from flat irons to kitchen...

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Carron

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Carron may refer to: River Carron, Forth, a river in Central Scotland River Carron, Wester Ross River Carron, Sutherland Carron River (Queensland), a...

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Watt steam engine

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introduced commercially in 1776, with the first example sold to the Carron Company ironworks. Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781...

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Radical War

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and in a swirl of disorderly events a small group marched towards the Carron Company ironworks to seize weapons, but while stopped at Bonnymuir they were...

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Charlotte Dundas

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Lord Dundas, the boat was built by John Allan, and the engine by the Carron Company. The first sailing was on the canal in Glasgow on 4 January 1803, with...

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Lamp box

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reign. LB215 Allied Iron Founders LB216 Carron Company LB216 Carron Company Stirlingshire LB217 Carron Company Stirlingshire "1977 pattern" In 1977, the...

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Patrick Miller of Dalswinton

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north of Dumfries (1731–1815) was a Scottish banker, shareholder in the Carron Company engineering works and inventor. Miller is buried in a tomb against the...

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Grangemouth

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and from the Baltic States. Being downstream from the world-famous Carron Company also increased the volume of shipping to the town as cast iron products...

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Owen Carron

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Owen Gerard Carron (born 9 February 1953) is an Irish republican activist who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1981 to...

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Naval artillery

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was a short-barrelled gun which threw a heavy ball developed by the Carron Company, a Scottish ironworks, in 1778. Because of irregularities in the size...

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John Roebuck

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involved in the manufacture of iron, and in 1759 founded the Carron Company ironworks at Carron, Stirlingshire with Garbett and other partners (Ebenezer Roebuck...

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Alloa Coal Company

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Cowie (Stirlingshire) lay outside the Company's Clackmannanshire roots, and was formerly owned by Carron Company (ironworkers), presumably for assuring...

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Pillar box

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'A' pillar box in Ramsgate, Kent, England. King George V post box by Carron Company. Glasgow, Arden, Kilmuir Crescent. Commercial Air Mail service commenced...

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Murchison Murders

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investigating Carron's disappearance that it was noticed that Lloyd and Ryan were also missing, and like Carron, had last been seen in Rowles' company. Upfield's...

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Sailing ship tactics

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was a short-barrelled gun which threw a heavy ball developed by the Carron Company, a Scottish ironworks, in 1778. Because of irregularities in the size...

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William Symington

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live near Falkirk and, later, a place as engine consultant for the Carron Company. In 1793, he developed a crank drive with a crosshead above the cylinder...

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Ford Carousel

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the Ford Mustang II), the Carousel prototype was built for Ford by Carron & Company of Inkster, Michigan. In 1972, Ford truck designers had begun final...

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Steamboat

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wooden hull. The boat was built by John Allan and the engine by the Carron Company. The first sailing was on the canal in Glasgow on 4 January 1803, with...

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Larbert

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council area of Scotland. The town lies in the Forth Valley above the River Carron which flows from the west. Larbert is three miles (five kilometres) from...

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Cumbernauld

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north of the airport] ironstone has been mined to a small extent by the Carron Company (at Westerwood farm); and limestone, brick-clay, sandstone, and trap...

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Wealden iron industry

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unable to match the much lower price that was acceptable to the Scottish Carron Company, whose fuel was coke. A few ironworks continued operating on a very...

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