Interior View of conveyor from press to kiln (view from top of kiln) Digital image of B/9373
SC 742631
Description Interior View of conveyor from press to kiln (view from top of kiln) Digital image of B/9373
Date 9/7/1980
Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Catalogue Number SC 742631
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 9373
Scope and Content Conveyor from press to kiln, Broadlie Brick Works, Dalry, North Ayrshire Auchinlea Quames & Brickworks Ltd started Broadlie Brick Works in 1938 and operated the business until just before World War II when Broadlie Brick Company took over. A Kenneth & Sons Ltd became the owner in the 1950s and ran the business to 1978 when the Scottish Brick Corporation took over. The works closed in 1992. This shows bricks being transported along the conveyor from the brick press to the kiln. Clay was shaped into a brick in a brick press and then fired in a kiln to preserve its shape. The conveyors were an unusual feature as brick works tended to use wagons to transport bricks. Traditionally the bricks produced by the works served a local market and even by 1980 the firm only had customers within a 48km radius. The bricks were mainly used for the construction of air raid shelters during World War II and for the building of new houses after the war. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Neg no. 42/80/7
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