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Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks, Interior View showing roll-turning lathe
SC 543689
Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks, Interior View showing roll-turning lathe
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543689
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 roll-turning lathe, used for turning the grooves in a pair of rolling-mill rolls to produce a finished section of rolled steel to the designed dimensions. Such lathes were simple but robust, like this one. 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. This crane, designed for handling ingots, is now preserved at Summerlee Heritage, minus its boiler. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/145/6
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