Interior View showing man pouring steel into mould
SC 776434
Description Interior View showing man pouring steel into mould
Date 9/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 776434
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Denny Iron Works, Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk This shows molten steel being poured into a mould in the steel foundry. The mould is full, and the header at the top of the mould is being filled. As steel contracts more than iron as it cools, enough metal must be in the header to feed the cooling metal in the mould to avoid a flawed casting. This firm was primarily a maker of agricultural machinery, especially ploughs and Cambridge rollers, and also made iron and steel castings as engineering components, for, among others, J & T Boyd, textile machinery makers, Glasgow. The iron founding industry was a speciality of the south-east corner of Stirlingshire, with the towns of Larbert, Denny, Falkirk and Bonnybridge all having several firms engaged in this business. The Denny Iron Works was founded in 1870, and belonged to Cruikshank & Co Ltd. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/13/30
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