View showing slag bogie
SC 679376
Description View showing slag bogie
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 679376
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gartsherrie Iron Works, North Lanarkshire This works was established in 1828 by William Baird & Co, and over the next 20 years was built up into the largest iron-smelting works in Scotland, with 16 blast furnaces. It continued to operate until 1967, latterly with a single large blast furnace. This shows one of the wagons, or 'slag bogies', used for tipping the slag produced as a liquid waste during the smelting of iron. The slag was run into the cast iron dish, and taken to the slag hill, where the brakes were put on, and the chain pulled by the locomotive to tilt the dish, pouring the slag out on to the hill. From its inception, the works was intended to produce foundry iron, and attention to quality led to Gartsherrie brands having premium prices. It continued to make foundry iron until it closed. The furnace was sold to Pakistan for re-erection there. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/20/18
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