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Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks, Interior View showing angle cutter

SC 543632

Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks, Interior View showing angle cutter

Date 1978

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

Catalogue Number SC 543632

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 an angle cutter in the maintenance workshops. This was a rare example of a steel-framed section-working tool in the west of Scotland. Most such machines were built with cast iron frames. 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 H78/143/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/543632

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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