Interior View showing tapping blast furnace

Description Interior View showing tapping blast furnace

Date 1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 669090

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Glasgow This works was founded in 1786 by Thomas Edington and John MacKenzie, to make both pig and malleable iron. It later passed into the hands of the Dunlop family, and in the 1930s became part of Colvilles Ltd, who completely rebuilt it to supply liquid iron to the Clydebridge Steel Works, and pig iron to other steel works. This shows molten iron being tapped from No 2 blast furnace, which was completed in 1940, as the second modern, mechanically-charged blast furnace in Scotland. The base of the furnace is on the right, with two of the columns supporting the upper part of the furnace. The rebuilding of Clyde Iron Works was substantially completed in 1952 when a second battery of coke ovens was commissioned. It remained a highly competitive works until its closure in 1978, which was occasioned by the phasing out of open-hearth steel making at Clydebridge and elsewhere. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/3/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/669090

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