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Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior
SC 434564
Description Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 434564
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Melting shop, Glengarnock Steelworks, Glengarnock, Ayrshire Glengarnock Works was established in 1840 as an iron-smelting works by Alison, Merry & Cunninghame, It began making steel by the Bessemer process in 1884. This melting shop was added during the 1914-18 war to make shell steel. This view shows one of the open hearth furnaces from the charging side These were replacements for the 1916-18 furnaces, and were oil (not gas) fired and had water-cooled doors. The open hearth process was used until the late 1970s to produce high quality structural steel. It was supplanted by the basic oxygen process which was quicker and more fuel efficient. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/80/14
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/434564
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