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Glengarnock Steel Works View of scrap preparation gantry
SC 529706
Description Glengarnock Steel Works View of scrap preparation gantry
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529706
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Glengarnock Iron and Steel Works, Ayrshire This complex was founded by Merry and Cunninghame as an iron smelting works in 1840. Steel manufacture began in the 1880s when a basic Bessemer plant was installed. Acid open-hearth steelmaking began in the First World War. This view shows the bay in which scrap steel was sorted and prepared for charging into the open hearth furnaces. The gantry supported an electric overhead crane fitted with an electromagnet to lift scrap. In open hearth steelmaking as practised at Glengarnock the furnaces were charged with a mixture of steel scrap and pig iron. The steel made at Glengarnock was latterly made into railway rails. The works closed in 1978 and has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/65/10
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/529706
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