Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior
SC 434583
Description Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 434583
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 ingot moulds on bogies in the tapping bay. When the charge in a furnace was ready it was run into a ladle, as seen on the right. Molten steel was then run into the ingot moulds from the bottom of the ladle. 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 H74/81/7
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