Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works View showing rail crane loading lorry
SC 536114
Description Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works View showing rail crane loading lorry
Date 3/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 536114
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clydebridge Steel Works, Tollcross, Glasgow This works was founded by the Clydebridge Steel Co Ltd, and was acquired in 1916 by David Colville & Sons, when a new melting shop was constructed to meet wartime demand for steel. This was re-equipped for hot-metal working in the 1940s. This view shows a rail-mounted diesel crane loading a lorry. Such cranes replaced the traditional steam cranes in the 1950s. To the left is a diesel shunting locomotive. Steelmaking ended at Clydebridge in 1978, as part of the nationalised British Steel Corporation's programme of phasing out open-hearth steel-making. As the works used molten pig-iron from Clyde Iron Works, it closed too. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/94/11
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