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View showing steam crane and locomotive
SC 679379
Description View showing steam crane and locomotive
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 679379
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Northburn Steel Works, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire This works was built during World War I to make steel for shell cases, by the Scottish Iron & Steel Co Ltd, an amalgamation of Coatbridge firms, though it was not completed until 1920. Northburn was the only steelmaking works in Coatbridge, and was from 1939 owned by Bairds & Scottish Steels Ltd. This shows the locomotive stabling point at the works, with the works shunting locomotive, and a steam crane beside the water tank, a former egg-ended boiler. To the right of the locomotive is a pile of the steel billets made in the works, which were re-rolled into other products in other works. The works closed in 1967, when Bairds & Scottish Steels Ltd was wound up. By that time a small open-hearth steel works like Northburn was completely uneconomic. The works was demolished soon after closure, and the locomotive and crane scrapped. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/20/21
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