Interior View of magnetic belt over raw material supply conveyor to Pan mill Digital image of B/9371

Description Interior View of magnetic belt over raw material supply conveyor to Pan mill Digital image of B/9371

Date 9/7/1980

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number SC 742632

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9371

Scope and Content Magnetic belt, 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 the magnetic belt, box-shaped machine in centre, and the conveyor to the pan mill on the left. The magnetic belt removed metal pieces from the clay before it entered the pan mill via the conveyor. The clay would be ground into small regularly sized pieces in the pan mill. Water was added to the clay which made it pliable and able to be modelled into bricks in the brick press. 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. 42/80/5

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