Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop General View
SC 529735
Description Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop General View
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529735
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 sawmill and joiners' shop, which dated from the iron-smelting period. The logs on the left are from elm trees, and were sawed into slabs for making rabbles for use in the open-hearth furnaces. In open hearth steelmaking as practised at Glengarnock the furnaces were charged with a mixture of steel scrap and pig iron. The works closed in 1978 and has been dismantled. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/66/11
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