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Interior View showing men tapping cupola
SC 774055
Description Interior View showing men tapping cupola
Date 1/2/71
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774055
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lion Foundry, Eastside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows what was probably the original cupola being tapped into a barrow ladle. The cupola is of the solid-bottom type. The projecting cylinder round the shaft of the cupola is fed with air which is blown into the shaft to make the fire inside burn fiercely enough to melt the metal in the charge. This scene had changed little, if at all, since the foundry was first built. The Lion Foundry gained a high reputation for its architectural ironwork It was making telephone kiosks and counterweights for forklift trucks in 1971. It has since closed and been demolished. This large foundry was established in about 1880 by three foremen from the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, which was world-renowned for the scale and quality of its output of architectural iron castings. The new foundry was next to Kirkintilloch railway station, and had a wharf on the Forth & Clyde Canal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/6/37
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