Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing fettling tools
SC 543595
Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing fettling tools
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543595
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lanarkshire Steelworks, Flemington, Lanarkshire This works was founded by the Lanarkshire Steel Co Ltd, largely rebuilt c1899, and absorbed by Colvilles. Initially it made a large range of shipbuilding and structural sections, and boiler and ship plates. Under Colvilles it lost plate manufacture. This view shows some fettling tools, with their wooden heads. These were used to prepare the beds of the open-hearth furnaces to receive a new charge, after each furnace was tapped. The works closed in 1978 as part of the British Steel Corporation's policy of phasing out open-hearth steelmaking in favour of the basic oxygen process. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/141/12
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