Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing mechanical hammer
SC 543652
Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View showing mechanical hammer
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543652
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 a small hammer in the smithy, probably designed to be air-powered. It is unusual in having the head (tup) running between slide bars. 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 H78/143/15
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