Bellshill, Clydesdale Street, Clydesdale Tube Works, interior View showing charging wagons in open hearth melting shop
SC 451856
Description Bellshill, Clydesdale Street, Clydesdale Tube Works, interior View showing charging wagons in open hearth melting shop
Date 9/3/1975
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 451856
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clydesdale Tube Works, Bellshill, Lanarkshire This works was built by Stewarts and Lloyds to make seamless steel tubes for the oil and other industries, using the rotary forging (Pilger) process Until the mid 1970s it had an open-hearth steel melting shop, which was replaced by an electric arc plant. This view shows charging boxes loaded with scrap, mounted on trolleys. The boxes are ready to be charged into a furnace. Behind the trolleys is an out-of-use open-hearth furnace. This open-hearth plant was installed during World War II. The works was closed on the 1980s and has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H75/2/11
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