View from NNE showing Marshall, Fleming & Jack steam crane

Description View from NNE showing Marshall, Fleming & Jack steam crane

Date 18/2/1971

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 775887

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lanarkshire Steel Works, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire This shows the right-hand side of the unique 'three-motor' steam crane built by local firm Marshall, Fleming & Jack for the works in 1899. It is in a typical early 20th-century steel works environment, grimy and apparently chaotic, but in fact well-organised. This crane could travel, hoist and turn simultaneously, but in practice this was not found necessary, and subsequently the cranes built for steel works use by the firm had a single motor. After the works closed in 1978 this crane was stored before being transferred to Summerlee Heritage Park, where it can still be seen. This works was founded in 1890 by the Lanarkshire Steel Co Ltd to make steel using the acid open-hearth process. Until it became part of Colvilles Ltd in the 1930s it made a wide range of products, but from that time until closure in 1978 specialised in heavy rolled sections, including crane rails. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/8/16

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