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Interior View showing disused pipe spinning cupolas

SC 774070

Description Interior View showing disused pipe spinning cupolas

Date 1/2/71

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

Catalogue Number SC 774070

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows two modern cupolas, with spark-arresting tops, installed to melt iron for making pipes using a process in which the mould was spun while casting was taking place. The process proved uncompetitive at this foundry, and the cupolas were disused in 1971. 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. 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 H35/71/6/26

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/774070

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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