Records of Shirlaw Allan, industrial auctioneers, Hamilton, Scotland

• Sales catalogues 1882-1972.

Shirlaw Allan was established c1880  at Hamilton, Scotland, and was a leading Scottish industrial auctioneer company. With industrial auctioneering becoming an increasingly competitive market, Shirlaw Allan merged with J A Cathcart in 1998  to form the present day company of Shirlaw Cathcart Ltd which is based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Details of machinery and equipment supplied by Shirlaw Allan to different businesses have been fully listed on an Access database called Shirlaw_Alan_Machinery_Index_1882-1978, which is available to readers in the public searchroom at Glasgow University Archive Services.

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Deposit: Mr William Lind: 1981

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Collection catalogued by Vikki Laidlaw, Hub Project Assistant, 24 February 2005 (fonds level description) and by members of Glasgow University Archive Services staff (lower level descriptions). Converted to Encoded Archival Description by Andrew Thomson, Hub Project Archivist, 24 February 2005.