Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop, interior View of Kerr, Auchengree bandsaw with Sturtevant motor
SC 529739
Description Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop, interior View of Kerr, Auchengree bandsaw with Sturtevant motor
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529739
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 a bandsaw in the sawmill and joiners' shop, which dated from the iron-smelting period. This saw was made by the Auchengree Foundry, a small engineering works near the Glengarnock works. The sawmill and joiners' shop made wooden heads from elm wood, which were used on rabbles for working in the open hearth furnaces. The works closed in 1978 and has been dismantled. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/66/15
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