Wm. McLachlan & Co.

WM. McLACHLAN & Co., Fish Merchants and Ice Manufacturers, 96, Bridgegate, and 628, Eglinton Street, Glasgow.

    Amongst the many purveyors of that very necessary and nutritious article of diet — fish — the firm of Wm. McLachlan & Co., of 96, Bridgegate, and 628, Eglinton Street, holds a prominent place. The business is an old one, having been established twenty ago by the present proprietors, Messrs. Wm. McLachlan and Robert Gallacher, to whose joint exertions must be attributed the success which has attended their undertaking since its foundation.

    They draw their supplies, consisting of herring and all other kinds of fish, from Loch Fyne and the north-west of Scotland, which are brought to Glasgow and other Scotch railway stations by their own steamers, where they are distributed over all the important towns in the Kingdom, and the greatest care is taken that only the freshest and most perfectly wholesome are offered for sale, thus ensuring from their influential clientele a hearty and deserving patronage. Messrs. McLachlan and Co. have a stand in the market which gives them greater advantages for the display of their fine stock and a wider field for their operations, it being used principally for carrying on auction sales of all kinds of fresh and smoked fish, including kippered herrings, which are cured by themselves in their own curing houses.

    Their labours, however, are not exclusively confined to the piscatorial line, for, encouraged perhaps by their success in that direction, they have lately started an Ice manufacturing business at their Eglinton Street establishment, where they have very extensive and valuable plant of the most modern and improved style in use for the various processes of manufacture. The water required for this branch of their business is brought from Loch Katrine and is made up into blocks ; the large quantity of one hundred and twenty tons being produced weekly. They have a very great demand for this commodity, it being largely used by ice-cream manufacturers, for table and preserving purposes, fish, beef, etc.

    A staff of eighty hands is employed to carry on these combined businesses, which, being under the personal control of one or other of the proprietors, are managed in a thoroughly practical and satisfactory manner.

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