Longitudinal section, axonometric cut-away view and ground floor plan.
SC 357955
Description Longitudinal section, axonometric cut-away view and ground floor plan.
Catalogue Number SC 357955
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of STD 75/1
Scope and Content Ground-plan 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.
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