View showing hot-metal wagons for transferring iron to Clydebridge Steel Works from Clyde Iron Works

Description View showing hot-metal wagons for transferring iron to Clydebridge Steel Works from Clyde Iron Works

Date 1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 669099

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 two of the ladle wagons used to receive molten iron from the blast furnaces at Clyde, and to transport it either to Clydebridge Steel Works for conversion to steel in open hearth furnaces, or to the pig-casting machine for casting into solid lumps for use in other steel works. 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 H35/66/3/9

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/669099

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