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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, Interior View showing clay gun of number 3 furnace

SC 525165

Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, Interior View showing clay gun of number 3 furnace

Date 4/4/1978

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 525165

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Tollcross, Glasgow This works was founded in 1786 as a coke-smelting iron works. As latterly existing it was substantially as rebuilt from the late 1930s to provide molten iron for steelmaking at the nearby Clydebridge Steel Works. This view shows the base of number three blast-furnace. In the centre is a clay gun, used to force fireclay paste into the tap-hole of the furnace after the molten iron had run out during the 'tapping' of the furnace. The combination of the iron works and steel works created Scotland's first integrated steelmaking complex. Clydebridge made steel by the open-hearth process, and the phasing out of this process resulted in closure in 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H78/42/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/525165

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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