Motherwell, Dalzell Steel Works, Interior View of brass foundry showing pattern store
SC 535865
Description Motherwell, Dalzell Steel Works, Interior View of brass foundry showing pattern store
Date 25/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 535865
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 pattern store of the brass foundry, with racks of patterns and core boxes. Core boxes, such as those on the left, were used to make resin-reinforced parts which when incorporated in moulds made voids in the finished casting. This small brass foundry was used to make parts required to keep the steel works working, such as brass bushes in which shafts ran. It was typical of many such foundries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/80/2
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