Interior View showing 'fire boxes' and holes where oil burner is fitted, looking towards kiln exit Digital image of B 9463

Description Interior View showing 'fire boxes' and holes where oil burner is fitted, looking towards kiln exit Digital image of B 9463

Date 30/3/1982

Catalogue Number SC 740519

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9463

Scope and Content Fireboxes and holes where oil burner is fitted, looking towards kiln exit, Douglas Fireclay Works, Dalry, North Ayrshire Douglas Fireclay Works, opened in 1914, was taken over by Morgans in the 1960s and bought by A P Green Refractories Ltd, an American company, in 1970. Local fireclay was used to make refractory bricks, with a high degree of heat resistance, until the works were shut down in 1982. This shows the fireboxes which fuelled the kiln and heated it. Douglas Works had four kilns: two tunnel kilns and two, more modern, intermittent kilns. These last were a 1960s Gibbons kiln, and a Briseco kiln made by British Ceramic Service Co Ltd, of Wolstanton, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Intermittent kilns had a single chamber and were sometimes uneconomic in terms of fuel consumption but they were easily handled and offered greater flexibility than most kilns. Tunnel kilns were more economical. As the name suggests, bricks were fired as they passed through a heated tunnel on cars. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Neg no. 1/82/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/740519

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