Motherwell, Dalzell Steel Works, Interior View showing large hydraulic riveting machine
SC 549259
Description Motherwell, Dalzell Steel Works, Interior View showing large hydraulic riveting machine
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549259
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dalzell Steelworks, Motherwell, Lanarkshire This works was founded by David Colville and Son in 1880 to complement their malleable iron works of 1871. It became part of Colvilles Ltd in 1930, and was subsequently nationalised and denationalised, renationalised and privatised. This view shows one of two hydraulic riveting machines, found in the Lanarkshire Steel Works earlier in 1978, and moved to Dalzell. This is the larger of the two, and was made by Sir William Arrol and Co Ltd, Glasgow. These were probably the last unaltered examples of this once-common device to survive in Scotland. Both have been preserved by the National Museums of Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/160/2
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