Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View of melting shop showing charging machine
SC 536150
Description Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View of melting shop showing charging machine
Date 3/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 536150
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 one of the charging machines in the 1916 melting shop, seen from the driver's end, with the platform for the charging boxes behind. The machine was mounted on an overhead gantry, which allowed it to move freely round the charging floor. 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 H78/96/1
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