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Bellshill, Clydesdale Street, Clydesdale Tube Works, interior View showing fettling furnace in open hearth melting shop
SC 451986
Description Bellshill, Clydesdale Street, Clydesdale Tube Works, interior View showing fettling furnace 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 451986
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clydesdale Tube Works, 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 a chain of men placing shovels of fluorspar in an empty open-hearth furnace to prepare it for a new charge, a process known as fettling the 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 H75/7/15
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