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Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks, Interior View showing open-hearth furnace (lining removed)
SC 549412
Description Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks, Interior View showing open-hearth furnace (lining removed)
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549412
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ravenscraig Steel Works, Flemington, Lanarkshire This steel works was built by Colvilles Ltd to meet post-war demand for strip steel. It was an integrated works, with blast-furnaces supplying molten iron to open-hearth steel furnaces producing ingots which were then rolled into semi-finished strip. This view shows one of the furnaces in the open-hearth shop in the works, the first steel-making capacity there, and the last shop of its kind to be built in Scotland. The lining has been removed. These were the largest open-hearth furnaces in Scotland. This shop closed in 1978, when it was replaced by a basic oxygen converter plant. The semi-finished strip from Ravenscraig was finished at Gartcosh. Ravenscraig survived as a steel works into the 1990s, but has now been completely demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/195/8
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