View showing blast furnaces
SC 669100
Description View showing blast furnaces
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 669100
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 to other steel works. This shows the three blast furnaces at Clyde looking across the iron ore stockyard. On the left is No 1, rebuilt in 1939, then No 2, of 1940, and No 3 of 1948. The inclined railways for mechanical charging are in front of each furnace, and there are hot blast stoves between one and two. 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 H35/66/3/10
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