Interior View showing men tapping cupola
SC 774056
Description Interior View showing men tapping cupola
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774056
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows the tap-hole of what was probably the original cupola being stopped up with a plug of fireclay on the end of a steel rod, before the barrow ladle, full of molten iron, is wheeled away to the moulding shop. There it will be tipped into a larger ladle. When full the metal will be poured into moulds. This scene had changed little, if at all, since the foundry was first built. The Lion Foundry gained a high reputation for its architectural ironwork 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 H35/71/6/36
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