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Interior View showing induction furnaces for steel founding

SC 776307

Description Interior View showing induction furnaces for steel founding

Date 9/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 776307

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Denny Iron Works, Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk This shows, on the right, the two one-ton electric induction furnaces used for melting steel for making steel castings, with the railings round the working platform. The furnaces are set into this platform, and tilt forward to run their contents into ladles. This process makes very high-quality steel. 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 H35/71/12/29

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/776307

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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