Interior View showing end of tap of tapping blast furnace

Description Interior View showing end of tap of tapping blast furnace

Date 1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 669096

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 the end of the tapping of No 2 furnace, with a spray of sparks indicating that blast air is being blown out on top of the slackening trickle of molten iron. In the centre is the clay gun ready to swing into position to plug up the tap hole with refractory clay until the next tap. 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 H35/66/3/5

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