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Gartcosh Steelworks, Interior View showing cold strip mill
SC 549488
Description Gartcosh Steelworks, Interior View showing cold strip mill
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549488
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gartcosh Works, Gartcosh, Lanarkshire Gartcosh Works was the successor to Smith and MacLean's steel sheet rolling mill, founded in the late 19th century. In the late 1950s it was rebuilt to house the cold-reduction steel strip mill built to finish strip from Ravenscraig. This view shows a section of the cold-reduction strip mill from the side. This mill took coils of semi-finished strip from Ravenscraig, and rolled them between a series of highly-polished rollers to the designed thickness. Gartcosh Works was rebuilt to retain employment in that part of Lanarkshire. The separation of strip manufacture into hot reduction at Ravenscraig and cold reduction at Gartcosh did not make economic sense, and both closed in the 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/200/1
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