View of base of stoker (right) and damaged fuel bucket Digital image of B/9380

Description View of base of stoker (right) and damaged fuel bucket Digital image of B/9380

Date 16/7/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 742634

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9380

Scope and Content Base of stoker and damaged fuel bucket, 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 a Riley Stoker nameplate in the centre with a damaged fuel bucket in the foreground and a stoker (in two pieces) in the background. The stoker would be placed on top of a fuel hole in the kiln. The fuel bucket would fit on top of the stoker and coal would be fed into the fire in the kiln below. 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. 46/80/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/742634

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