Interior. View of North corner of transverse arch kiln. Digital image of B 9311

Description Interior. View of North corner of transverse arch kiln. Digital image of B 9311

Date 4/3/1980

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number SC 730885

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9311

Scope and Content Interior, Staffordshire transverse arch kiln, Dunaskin Brick Works, Waterside Iron Works, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire The Dalmellington Iron Company founded the iron works at Waterside in 1847. The works were bought in 1931 by William Baird & Company Limited who established a new firm called Baird & Dalmellington Limited and built the brick works. The brick works closed in 1976. This shows the interior of the Staffordshire transverse arch kiln. The damper rods sticking up from the floor in the centre of the picture controlled the fire in the chambers below. The metal hood on the left of the damper rods was for waste heat transfer from the chamber below. The main features of a Staffordshire transverse arch kiln such as this one, are dampers, flues and transverse arches. Dampers controlled the fire and flues improved air circulation. Transverse arches increased the amount of bricks that could be baked in the chamber because the arch lay across the flow of the fire which meant that they did not have to be a set length. Originally the blowing engine house was where cast iron would have been produced but when the iron works became a brick works it was converted to house brick presses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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