Interior View showing Laidlaw Exhauster
SC 739498
Description Interior View showing Laidlaw Exhauster
Date 29/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739498
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Old exhauster house, Tradeston Gas Works, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This shows the engine of one of a pair of steam-engine driven exhauster sets, built by R Laidlaw & Co. Each set had the engine between the two exhausters. The engine is fitted with Meyer valve gear to allow the engine to maintain constant speed while the demand for power varied. Exhausters were used in coal-gas manufacture to draw the newly-made gas out of the retorts in which the coal was being distilled. The type of exhauster seen here had a rotor with sliding vanes, inside the drum casing, which, when it was rotated, acted as a pump. Tradeston Gas Works was founded in 1843 by the Glasgow City & Suburban Gas Co. It was later taken over by Glasgow Corporation Gas Department and rebuilt. After World War II a new vertical retort installation was built, but this exhauster house was retained. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/37/9
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