Interior View showing men casting balance weight for fork-lift truck
SC 774061
Description Interior View showing men casting balance weight for fork-lift truck
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774061
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a mould for a forklift truck balance-weight being filled with molten iron poured from the large ladle seen here. The ladle is tilted by gearing operated by turning a handwheel, allowing the rate of pouring to be carefully controlled This clumsy was 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 H35/71/6/31
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