Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing soaking pits
SC 536165
Description Glasgow, Clydebridge Steel Works, Interior View showing soaking pits
Date 3/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 536165
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 the tops of the soaking pits, where ingots were placed after the moulds had been removed, so that they could reach an even temperature throughout, before going to the cogging mill for the first stage of reduction. 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 H78/96/14
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