Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks, Interior View of open-hearth shop showing tapping bay
SC 549427
Description Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks, Interior View of open-hearth shop showing tapping bay
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549427
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 the tapping bay of the open-hearth shop, with the furnaces to the left. The molten steel was tapped into ladles, one of which can be seen in the middle distance, from which the moulds were filled. 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 H78/196/4
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