Longitudinal section, axonometric cut-away view and ground floor plan.
STD 75/1
Description Longitudinal section, axonometric cut-away view and ground floor plan.
Date 1960
Catalogue Number STD 75/1
Category All Other
Copies STD 75/1 P, SC 357953, SC 357954, SC 357955, SC 357956
Scope and Content Plans and drawings of engineering shop Carron Ironworks, Falkirk Carron Iron Works was founded in 1759 and built on a vast scale to a carefully thought-out plan. It was connected with James Watt's early experiments with steam-power, but was best known for its cannon, the 'Carronade', and its fine castings. The machine-hall is to the left. It consisted of one huge room with two post cranes with a suspended floor and a loft above. To the right is a three-storeyed wing of workshops where moulding and pattern-making would have been performed. Many large engineering workshops or foundries were built during the 19th-century heavy engineering expansion. They were strongly built, and usually consisted of a vast machine-hall or erecting-shop with a multi-storeyed wing of workshops. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1":12'; 1":24'
Medium Pen and ink
External Reference Framed item 341
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