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Interior View showing drying rolls of machine
SC 781971
Description Interior View showing drying rolls of machine
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 781971
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Mill, Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire This shows the 'dry end' of No 1 paper machine. The layer of moist paper from the couch rolls is being fed between a pair of rollers to remove more water, and then to the sequence of steam-heated rolls which dry the paper ready for winding on to a roller at the far end of the machine. This was a two-wire machine, in which two 'wet ends' produced layers of fibres which were then pressed together to form a thicker paper than could be made on a single-wire machine. This firm specialised in cover papers for books, and blotting paper. Some of the cover papers were embossed to give a woven finish. 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 H35/71/38/11
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