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Glasgow, 184 Helen Street, Clyde Foundry View partly demolished, showing interior and roof structure
SC 595947
Description Glasgow, 184 Helen Street, Clyde Foundry View partly demolished, showing interior and roof structure
Date 29/4/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595947
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clyde Foundry, No 184 Helen Street, Glasgow This very large iron foundry was built in about 1922 by Harland & Wolff Ltd to make all the iron castings for its works in Belfast and on the Clyde. It was the largest heavy foundry in Scotland, if not in Britain. This shows the building from the north-east, during demolition, with the Helen Street elevation still intact. It was a steel-framed building, but was unusual in being clad with reinforced glass. The supports for the overhead cranes can be seen. This building was designed to make the heavy castings for large marine diesel engines in whose manufacture Harland & Wolff specialised. Unfortunately demand did not match expectation, and the foundry proved too large to be economic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/216/2B
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