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Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing 600 ton metal mixer furnace Q
SC 536156
Description Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing 600 ton metal mixer furnace Q
Date 3/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 536156
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 metal mixer furnace M, in the 1916 melting shop, seen from the charging floor. This furnace was filled with molten pig-iron moved by rail from Clyde Iron Works, and kept it hot until it was needed for charging an open hearth furnace. 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 H78/96/6
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