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Interior (possible) View showing tar pump
SC 739507
Description Interior (possible) View showing tar pump
Date 29/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739507
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tar pump, Tradeston Gas Works, No 95 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow This shows a small tar pump outside the exhauster house, which was probably used to remove tar which condensed in the exhausters as they drew the hot gas from the retorts. Exactly how this worked is not clear from this photograph. Exhausters were used in coal-gas manufacture to draw the newly-made gas out of the retorts in which the coal was being distilled. This house contained the two original low-speed exhauster sets, probably of the 1880s, and a post-war high-speed set, all steam-driven. 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. The 19th-century exhauster house was retained. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/37/19
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