Galloways of Balerno: 1st Edition: Hardback: 1968: Paper-making

Galloways of Balerno

Published privately for John Galloway & Company by Newman Neame Ltd, London, 1968. First Edition. Hardback cover, 51 pages. Black & white photography throughout.

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. No names or writing. Images crisp & clear throughout.

20th April 1966 was the 50th anniversary of the foundation of John Galloway & Company Limited, Paper Makers, of Balerno; and this brief account of the firm's fortunes was commissioned by Mr John Galloway to celebrate the fact. 

Sadly, he did not live to see it; and if, here and there, an obituary note colours the story, that is the reason. But the obituary is for the man, not for the firm. From one mill, ill-situated and too small, and from another, partially dismantled, John Galloway created a paper-making business of reputation and resource, and laid plans, before he died, for the greatest single act of expansion in its history.

The new plant is on the far bank of the Bavelaw Burn and is equipped to produce paper coated by the most modern techniques. Rightly therefore, this account is concerned with the future as well as with the past, and illustrates, perhaps, the continuity of things, even when the men who created them have gone. It is three and a half centuries since the first paper was made in Scotland, beside the same rippling waters that feed Balerno Bank Mill; and there is a certain fitness about this. John Galloway himself was tirelessly alert to technical progress. It is noteworthy that he was the first paper maker to call in management consultants; and Balerno Bank was the first British paper-mill to install, under licence, the American champion coating process.

These matters will be described in their place; but it is the balance of permanence and change which they suggest that emerges most vividly from this record of fifty profitable and hard-working years.

(Bindery A1)