Retrieved from '' email: Tool ArchiveMachine-tools Sale & Wanted Spiers Planes: Mild Steel Malleable Iron Gunmetal Iron Planes (catalogue), Paisley and Ayr: Stewart Spiers, c. Spiers, Stewart, Iron Plane Manufacturers.Catalogue of Wrought iron, Steel, and Gunmetal Planes Manufactured by Stewart Spiers, Iron Plane Maker, Ayr: Stewart Spiers, 1909 Antique Woodworking Tools: Their Craftsmanship from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century, Cambridge: John Adamson (2010) ISBN978-1-89OCLC727125586, pp. with photography by James Austin and foreword by David Linley. 'Stewart Spiers, Ayr' in Russell, David R. Scottish and English Metal Planes Manufactured by Stewart Spiers and Manufactured by T. Through Much Tribulation: Stewart Spiers and the Planemakers of Ayr, Pascoe Vale, Victoria: Oliver Publications (1998) ISBN978-6-1OCLC42842538 This book reproduces both the 1909 and the c. 'Two great Scottish tool-makers', Furniture & Cabinetmaking, no. He is listed in the Ayr Directory for 1934/5 as a 'machineman'. Steel Plane Maker's Business for Sale' in the Scotsman, 6 December 1921, p. FOR', suggesting that planes were being sold even before the patent had been accepted. ^ Some Plane-O-Ayr planes bear the stamp 'PAT APPL D.^ He is listed in the Ayr Directory from 1920 onwards as manager.Although he left an operational plane-making business as well as his fine house at Firth View, his estate was a modest £882. Stewart Spiers died in 1899 and is buried in the Wallacetown Secessionist Graveyard in Ayr (see Lampert, p. Her death certificate of 16 January 1901 describes her as an 'iron plane manufacturer'. ^ In the 1891 Census she is noted as an 'iron plane maker'.^ Recorded in the Ayr Directory for 1845 as a cabinet-maker.^ Whereas both the 1849 Ayr Directory and that of 1858 list him as both cabinet-maker and iron-plane maker, the 1871 Census gives his sole occupation as iron-plane maker and the 1876 Ayr Directory as iron-plane manufacturer.^ First Census of 1841 1845 Directory.Death Duty Register confirms date of death.

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