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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing sinster plant
SC 525251
Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works View showing sinster plant
Date 4/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 525251
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 the sinter plant which prepared iron ore for charging into the blast furnaces. Powdery ore, sometimes blended from a number of different sources, was heated by gas until it became like toffee, then cooled and broken up. Sintering allowed powdery ore to be used which would otherwise be blown out of the furnace by the blast air. The gas used was recovered during the coking of coal in the adjacent coke-oven plant. The works closed in 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/47/5
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