Glasgow, South Street, BAE systems, Steel Preparation Workshop
551 1/4/9/65
Description Glasgow, South Street, BAE systems, Steel Preparation Workshop
Date 2013
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number 551 1/4/9/65
Category All Other
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1332278
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160914 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from East of East end of North Bay. This is the steel preparation or plate cutting shop is about 590 feet in length. The east end of the north bay structure dates from the 1950s at its East end and the West end (saw-tooth roofed building, formerly the boiler shop with its south west/east oriented single pitch roofed range) dates from 1907. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160915 | Interior. Central Yard Steel preparation workshop. View of Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine and job crane (maximum plate width 9.14m, plant no. 5569) from North West. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160916 | Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, East end of North Bay. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne roller with Press to right, from North West. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160917 | Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. General view from South showing multiple ridged roof , north and west wall of former boiler shop of 1907. The frame and roof structure and stanchions appear to be original, although there is later cladding and remodelling of the west wall. On right, two CNC plasma burners for welding metal sheets, and in background, a 7.5Tonne EOT Crane (Via Nova, instaled 1982) and a 7.5Tonne Matterson Semi Goliath Crane background left (installed 1982) with attached magnetic lifts for moving metal sheets fro the steel stockyard to the plasma burners.. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160918 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from North West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with two MG 3 Corta CNC plasma burners left foreground and one MGCorta (CNC Plasma) burning bed to the right. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. On the extreme right is a magnetic lift (installed 2000). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160919 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from South West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with MG Corta CNC plasma burner right foreground and two MG 3 (CNC Plasma) burning beds to the left. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The Crane on the right is a 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995). The two beyond are 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160920 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End, South Bay. Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995) and two 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996) travelled along this. To the left later addition which in parts incorporated the former open yard electric traveller crane rail. This open yard was later closed over and became the steel stockyard. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160921 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of annexe to North West of main shed from South West. One of the two plasma CNC burnres just visible on right. The frame with original 1906 brick infill visible top right corner. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160922 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane attached to a 7.5 Tonne, Mattreson semi Goliath crane. This woud have moved plate steel from the Stockyard (now demolished) into the Preparation Shed and to the plasma burners for welding etc. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160923 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop North Bay, West End. View of CNC plasma burners from West. Note roof change with 1950s extension in background. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160924 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane for moving sheet metal from now demolishedStockyard to the plasma burners which are out of shot to the right of the camera. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160925 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. Stanchions dividing North and South Bays at the West end with integral EOT crane rails. These sanchions date from 1906. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160926 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End. View of MG Corta CNC plasma burner (maximum 11m by 2m cutting bed area, installed 1995). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160927 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of two, MG3 (CNC plasma) burning beds (one 11m by 8m and one 13m by 8m cutting bed area) from South South East. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160928 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1906). View of light metal manufacture Trumpf laser (with two burning beds 13m by 3m maximum cutting bed area) workstation from North East. Note the steel frame with brick infill construction. This workstation hsa been created by slapping through the 1906 original south exterior wall of the former boiler shop. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160929 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1906 South Bay, East End and 18950s south Bay West end junction. View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine. (maximum plate width 3.05m). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160930 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1950s South and North BAys. General view from South West (called the South East Pend). Extreme right is a 5 Tonne Arrol EOT crane installed in 1996. A MAtterson 7.5 Tonne EOT Pendant Crane is on the left, Installed 1995) with another Matteson 7.5 Tonne EOT crane (North Bay Centre, instaled 1982). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160931 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane and 7.5 Tonne Matterson EOT Pendant crane (installed 1995). Also, a Hammerle Press Brake (a mchine tool designed to bend sheet metal using dies, 500 Tonnes maximum pressure). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160932 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1950s) East End. General view from South East. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160933 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160934 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160935 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane. | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160936 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 160937 | Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001). | 6/9/2013 | Item Level |
