Interior View showing Smith & Rodney steam crane

Description Interior View showing Smith & Rodney steam crane

Date 18/2/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 775888

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lanarkshire Steel Works, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire This shows the right-hand side of a 'single-motor' steam crane built by Smith Rodley, a prolific Yorkshire crane builder. It is working in a store for foundry moulding boxes. This crane was probably built in the early 20th century. This crane was relatively lightly built for a steel works crane, and was probably purchased for light duties around the works, with the heavy Marshall, Fleming & Jack 'three-motor' steam crane handling heavier work. The Smith Rodley crane was scrapped after the works closed in 1978. 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 H35/71/8/15

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap