Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing coke oven locomotive and coke car by coke ovens

Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing coke oven locomotive and coke car by coke ovens

Date 4/4/1978

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

Catalogue Number SC 525217

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Tollcross, Glasgow Clyde Iron Works, founded in 1787 as an iron-smelting works, was completely rebuilt from the 1930s to supply pig iron in molten form to the adjacent Clydebridge Steelworks, and in solid form to steelworks in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. This view shows part of the coke ovens at the works, which made the coke used to smelt iron in the blast furnaces. Each oven was a tall fire-brick-lined chamber, heated by gas burning in spaces on either side of the oven. The small electric locomotive in this view was used to place a coke car below a set of ovens ready for emptying. The red-hot coke was then sprayed with water to stop it burning before it was transferred to the furnaces. The works closed in 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H78/45/7

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/525217

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