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Sandilands Chemical Works, Aberdeen

551 1/4/9/1109

Description Sandilands Chemical Works, Aberdeen

Date 1986

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number 551 1/4/9/1109

Category All Other

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2178939

Collection Hierarchy - Sub-Group Level

Collection Level (551 1) Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland

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>>> Sub-Group Level (551 1/4/9/1109) Sandilands Chemical Works, Aberdeen

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75383 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of raw phosphate in store with shuttered concrete arch roof. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75384 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works. View of superphosphate plant from North-East with bridge to intermediate store and blending. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75385 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of Bradley Pulverizer Co Poitte Mill used for grinding raw phosphate down to the correct texture before going to the superphosphate plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75386 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of Bradley Pulverizer Co Poitte Mill used for grinding raw phosphate down to the correct texture before going to the superphosphate plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75387 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of top floor showing phosphate/acid mixing vessel above den No 2, acid despatch tank & raw phosphate weighing and despatch machine. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75388 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of superphosphate plant top floor, weighing & depatch plant for pulverized raw phosphate, which is taken to the dens by auger to be mixed with sulphuric acid. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75391 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of emergency douche in superphosphate plant for washing off sulphuric acid spillages. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75392 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of acid and phosphate mixing pot fitted with electric motor driven paddles. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75393 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of base of acid & phosphate mixing pot in superphosphate den with feed into den chamber below. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75394 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of dens No 2 in superphosphate plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75395 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of end shield on No1 superphosphate - cutter blades are in fixed position behind shield, and the body of the den moves forward onto the blades allowing them to empty the den. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75396 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of main body of superphosphate den made from fabricated steel pieces with flanges of angle section and ribs of 'T' section rolled steel bolted together. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75397 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of superphosphate den in fully extended forward position. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75398 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, inteiror. View of superphosphate den in retracted position for loading prior to superphosphate being cut out. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75399 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of bucket elevator carrying superphosphate off conveyor belt beneath dens. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75400 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of base of fresh water scrubber for cleaning den fumes. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75401 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of fresh water scrubber which washes out sulphuric dioxide fumes from superphosphate dens. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75403 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works. General view of compound fertilizer store from South-West. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75404 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of compound fertilizer in store. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75405 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works. View of granulation plant and its sea-water scrubbing plant outside with sacks of fertilizer ready for despatch. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75402 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of rotary drier made by Newell Dunford Engineering Ltd in motion in granulating plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75390 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of sulphuric acid tanks and pump in superphosphate plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images A 75389 Aberdeen, Links Road, Sandilands Chemical Works, interior. View of acid despatch tank and controls in superphosphate plant. 23/4/1986 Item Level

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