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Coatbridge, Locks Street, Sheepford Boiler Works, interior View showing plate furnace
SC 452137
Description Coatbridge, Locks Street, Sheepford Boiler Works, interior View showing plate furnace
Date 11/7/1975
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 452137
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Sheepford Boiler Works, Locks Street, Coatdyke, Lanarkshire This works was founded by Thomas Hudson to make boilers and other products made of iron and steel plate. They developed as a speciality the making of perforated plates for use in separating pieces of coal or stone into different sizes. This view shows the furnace used to heat boiler plates before they were formed in a flanging press operated by hydraulic power. The table in the left foreground was part of the press. This works closed in the early 1980s. Some of its machinery is now in the Summerlee Industrial Museum at Coatbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H75/28/1
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