Interior View showing light-moulding shop
SC 776289
Description Interior View showing light-moulding shop
Date 9/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 776289
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Denny Iron Works, Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk This shows the interior of the light moulding shop, a relatively modern steel-framed building. The small moulds on the floor have been made with greensand, a mixture of sharp sand with coal dust and a little water. When rammed up round a pattern this material makes a sharply-defined mould. This firm was primarily a maker of agricultural machinery, especially ploughs and Cambridge rollers, and also made iron and steel castings as engineering components, for, among others, J & T Boyd, textile machinery makers, Glasgow. The iron founding industry was a speciality of the south-east corner of Stirlingshire, with the towns of Larbert, Denny, Falkirk and Bonnybridge all having several firms engaged in this business. The Denny Iron Works was founded in 1870, and belonged to Cruikshank & Co Ltd. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/12/41
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