Patent - "Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for Distilling Shale and like Minerals, and for Dealing with the Resulting Products".
code: LVSAV2009.019
Description
2 copies of patent number 15,552, dated 1891 on front and 8th June 1892 inside, second edition. Robert Orr and Robert MacKay Sutherland of James Ross & Company, Philpstoun Oil Works, County of Linlithgow for "Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for Distilling Shale and like Minerals, and for Dealing with the Resulting Products".
6 pages including one sheet with a technical drawing. Stamped on front right hand corner "Patent Office, Glasgow, R.M. Thomson & Co., 96 Buchanan Street. Printed for HMSO
Donor was former employee of BP Oil (Grangemouth) Refinery Ltd.