Glengarnock Steel Works View of sack cogging mill
SC 529830
Description Glengarnock Steel Works View of sack cogging mill
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529830
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, with the primary reduction - cogging - mill, used to reduce ingot steel to billets for re-rolling. This was made by the German firm of Sack in 1938. The large dial indicated the thickness of the billets. This was a typical moderately sized cogging mill. The apparatus in the foreground was used to move the billet from one part of the rollers to another as reduction progressed. In a modern steel works this machine has been replaced by continuous casting. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/71/2
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