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Gartcosh Steelworks, Interior View showing hand bending rolls
SC 549493
Description Gartcosh Steelworks, Interior View showing hand bending rolls
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549493
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 two hand-operated sets of bending rolls for steel sheet, probably dating from the 19th century. The one on the left was designed to deal with thin sheet steel, and the other could bend thicker material. 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 H78/200/5
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