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Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing 90 ton fixed open-hearth furnace L

SC 536151

Description Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing 90 ton fixed open-hearth furnace L

Date 3/5/1978

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 536151

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 fixed open-hearth furnace M, in the 1916 melting shop, seen from the charging floor. The doors in the front of the furnace could be raised for charging, and were water-cooled. The furnace was oil-fired, with a capacity of 90 tons. 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 H78/96/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/536151

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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