Dalzell Steel Works, Open Hearth Melting Shop View of charging machine
SC 529922
Description Dalzell Steel Works, Open Hearth Melting Shop View of charging machine
Date 25/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529922
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 one of the charging machines in the early 20th century open hearth shop. This was mounted on an overhead gantry, and could be moved over the whole of the charging area. The arm could be slotted into the charging box ends. The renationalised British Steel Corporation decided in the late 1970s to phase out the open-hearth process as a way of making steel in favour of the basic oxygen process, a development of the Bessemer process, hence the closure of this shop. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/77/2
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/529922
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
