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Interior View showing wet end of machine
SC 781966
Description Interior View showing wet end of machine
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 781966
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Mill, Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire This shows the upper 'wet end' of number one paper machine. Both of the machines had two 'wires'. Here the suspension of fibres in water (known as 'stuff') is run onto an endless woven-wire belt. Water is sucked out, leaving a layer of fibres. The endless bands at the sides of the 'wire' determine the width of the paper. The moist layer of fibres from this 'wire' were taken to the floor below, where they were pressed together with a similar layer from a 'wire' on that floor. The double thickness was then pressed and dried to form the finished paper. This firm specialised in cover papers for books, and blotting paper. These mills were founded in 1848 by T R & G Craig, who also owned the large Moffat Mills, south of Airdrie. In 1971 they were owned by Robert Craig & Co. The Caldercruix mills had at one stage four paper-making machines, of which two were in operation when papermaking ended on 7 June 1971. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/38/20
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