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Dumbreck Coke Ovens General View

SC 601693

Description Dumbreck Coke Ovens General View

Date 6/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 601693

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dumbreck Coke Ovens, Dumbreck Colliery, North Lanarkshire These by-product-recovery coke ovens were built early in World War II to recover coal tar products needed in explosives and dyestuffs manufacture. The coke was used in the blast furnaces at Gartsherrie Ironworks. This view shows the charging machine, which ran on rails to allow each of the chambers of the oven to be charged individually. The machine also pushed the coke out of the other side of the ovens at the end of the process. The beehive ovens which this plant replaced were hemi-spherical brick chambers. A layer of coal was placed on the floor of each chamber, and set on fire. By controlling the air entering the chamber excellent hard coke could be made, but no by-products. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/279/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/601693

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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