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Interior View showing Sissons Exhausters
SC 739500
Description Interior View showing Sissons Exhausters
Date 29/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739500
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Old exhauster house, Tradeston Gas Works, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This shows an exhauster set of mid-20th-century construction, driven by a single-cylinder, high-speed engine by W Sisson & Co Ltd, Gloucester. The engine drove two exhausters, each with two rotors in the oval casings seen here. 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 could deal with much larger volumes of gas than the traditional type, which had a single rotor, driven at a relatively slow speed. 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 H35/70/37/11
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