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Interior View showing men filling large ladle

SC 774059

Description Interior View showing men filling large ladle

Date 1/2/71

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 774059

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a barrow ladle, full of molten iron, which has been wheeled into the moulding shop from the cupola being tipped into a larger ladle from which the moulds will be filled. Several barrow-ladlefuls will be required to fill the larger ladle, needed for heavy castings. This clumsy way of filling a large ladle was necessary because the foundry had been designed to make light castings. It had 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 H35/71/6/34

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/774059

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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