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Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View from NW showing plate shear
SC 543719
Description Motherwell, Lanarkshire Steelworks View from NW showing plate shear
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543719
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 old and very massive set of plate shears in the scrap preparation yard. This was used for cutting up steel plate into pieces which could be charged into the open-hearth furnaces. 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 H78/146/12
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