Dalzell Steel Works, Reversing Motor View of English electric type 65500 300HP motor
SC 529899
Description Dalzell Steel Works, Reversing Motor View of English electric type 65500 300HP motor
Date 25/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529899
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dalzell Steel Works, Motherwell, Lanarkshire Dalzell Steel Works was developed by David Colville and Son from 1880 to complement their existing malleable-iron works. A new large open hearth steel plant was installed in the 1914-18 War. After 1945 a new light-section mill was built by Colvilles Ltd. This view shows the 300 horsepower electric motor which drove the cogging mill in the light-section shop. This motor was powered by direct-current electricity, and could be reversed to allow the steel being rolled to pass to and fro. This mill was an early victim of rationalisation in the renationalised British Steel Corporation. Colvilles Ltd had been developed as an integrated concern, supplying steel in a wide range of forms. The new corporation did not believe in that concept. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/75/15
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