Interior View showing men charging cupola
SC 774050
Description Interior View showing men charging cupola
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774050
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows what was probably the original cupola being charged, using an electric monorail crane. The cupola has a riveted iron casing which tapers in towards the top, an early feature. The materials charged into the cupola are pig-iron, scrap iron, coke and limestone (used as a flux). The Lion Foundry gained a high reputation for its architectural ironwork, and was noted for bandstands, and for cast iron building front panels, used in much Art Deco urban building. It was making telephone kiosks and counterweights for forklift trucks in 1971. It has since closed and been demolished. This large foundry was established in about 1880 by three foremen from the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, which was world-renowned for the scale and quality of its output of architectural iron castings. The new foundry was next to Kirkintilloch railway station, and had a wharf on the Forth & Clyde Canal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/6/39
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