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Interior View showing beater shop
SC 782306
Description Interior View showing beater shop
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 782306
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Mill, Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire This shows a beater, in the centre. This device has a heavy roller with hardened steel cutting blades set into the periphery. These are set close to a hardened steel plate in the bottom of a cast-iron tank. The roller revolves in a suspension of fibres, and chops them into lengths suitable for paper-making. This firm specialised in cover papers for books, some of which were embossed to give a woven finish, and blotting papers. By 1971, with the substitution of ball-point pens for wet-ink pens the demand for blotting papers had almost disappeared. 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 H35/71/39/37
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/782306
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