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Glengarnock, Steel Works, Power Station View of No.1 turbogenerator (2.5 mW, built 1941, no.179209)
SC 529819
Description Glengarnock, Steel Works, Power Station View of No.1 turbogenerator (2.5 mW, built 1941, no.179209)
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529819
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 interior of the rolling-mill power station, built during the First World War, This is a 2.5 megawatt steam turbogenerator installed in 1941, one of a pair put in during World War II, seen from the turbine end. This was a typical works power station, but like most such it had been supplanted by drawing power from the National Grid. It had been disused for some years prior to 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/70/8
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/529819
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