Gourock Ropeworks View of traveller in situ
SC 491710
Description Gourock Ropeworks View of traveller in situ
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 491710
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gourock Ropeworks, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, (Inverclyde council area) This complex was in the ownership of the Gourock Ropework Co from 1797, though there appears to have been an earlier open-air ropewalk on part of the site. The company became the largest of its kind in the world. This view shows the 'traveller'. which was hauled along the railway by a wire rope between the rails. The hooks turned to twist the strands of the rope. The gear wheels in the foreground could be changed to vary the type of rope produced. Power to turn the hooks was supplied by an endless rope, which can just be seen to the left. The twist in the individual strands of rope locked the strands together to form the finished rope. This was the longest ropewalk in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/98/5
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