Interior View showing circular saw in pattern shop
SC 774095
Description Interior View showing circular saw in pattern shop
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774095
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a circular saw in the pattern shop, which could be swung across the table in the foreground. A wooden pattern, in the shape of the finished casting, was made and used to form the mould. If large numbers of the same object were needed, a metal pattern would be made. 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 H35/71/6/24
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