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Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior

SC 434587

Description Glengarnock Steelworks, Melting Shop, interior

Date 1974

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 434587

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 the scrap bay with a magnet crane transferring scrap steel from railway wagons into charging boxes for loading into the open hearth furnaces. The process used a mixture of scrap and pig iron to produce steel. 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 H74/81/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/434587

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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