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Interior View showing Sissons Exhauster
SC 739501
Description Interior View showing Sissons Exhauster
Date 29/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739501
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Old exhauster house, Tradeston Gas Works, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This shows the engine of an exhauster set of mid-20th-century construction, driven by a single-cylinder, high-speed engine by W Sisson & Co Ltd, Gloucester. The circular inspection door has been removed showing the connecting rod, crankshaft and the eccentric which drove the piston valve. 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 driven by this engine had twin rotors inside an oval casing, and could operate at a higher speed than the traditional type. 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 H35/70/37/12
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