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Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks View from E showing charging skips for open-hearth shop with part of W block in background
SC 549443
Description Motherwell, Ravescraig Steelworks View from E showing charging skips for open-hearth shop with part of W block in background
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549443
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 charging boxes for the open-hearth furnaces, on the rail-mounted bogies which moved them into position for the charging machines to pick them up and tip them into the furnaces. 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 H78/197/4
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