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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, coke ovens View showing Benzole plant
SC 525250
Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, coke ovens View showing Benzole plant
Date 4/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 525250
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 oven plant at the works, which made the coke used to smelt iron in the blast furnaces. This equipment was used to recover 'benzole' - a mixture of coal-tar byproducts, from the gas made by coking. The benzole was partly refined at the works, and then sold to chemical manufacturers to make a wide range of products. The sale of byproducts was important to the economics of iron-making. The works closed in 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/47/4
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