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Ochiltree Tileworks, Interior View showing pipe cutting
SC 513803
Description Ochiltree Tileworks, Interior View showing pipe cutting
Date 6/8/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 513803
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ochiltree Tile Works, Ayrshire This works was built to make agricultural drainage tiles, which it continued to do until closure in 1982. The kilns latterly used were both downdraught, one rectangular (1961) and the other round !1968), replacing inefficient updraught kilns. This view inside the drying shed shows a length of tile section being extruded through a die on the front of the machine. When enough tile section has been extruded it will be cut into pieces by the stretched wires seen here. This was the last drainage-tile works to operate in lowland Scotland. It was demolished immediately after closure in 1982. Clay drainage tiles were supplanted by perforated plastic pipes, which were easier to lay. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/58/3
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/513803
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