Interior View showing hand-worked bending machine
SC 774066
Description Interior View showing hand-worked bending machine
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774066
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a curious hand-operated machine in the foundry. It was probably made for breaking pigs of iron when the quality of pig-iron was determined by the appearance of a freshly-fractured face. It may also have been used for breaking test-pieces of newly-cast iron. The Lion Foundry gained a high reputation for its architectural ironwork, notably bandstands and cast iron building front panels, popular in inter-war buildings It was making telephone kiosks and counterweights for forklift trucks in 1971. It has since closed and been demolished to make way for a road and flats. 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 H35/71/6/28
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