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Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop; Interior View of three-throw hydraulic pump for Buckton tensile testing machine - powered by Westinghouse motor-
SC 529762
Description Glengarnock Steel Works, Joiner's Shop; Interior View of three-throw hydraulic pump for Buckton tensile testing machine - powered by Westinghouse motor-
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529762
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 hydraulic pump in the testing shop. This shop was established in 1916 to test steel made for shell manufacture. This pump supplied power to the two Buckton tensile testing machines. The works closed in 1978 and was dismantled. Some of the testing shop equipment was preserved, and can be seen at Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/67/14
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