Interior View showing bases of cupolas
SC 783511
Description Interior View showing bases of cupolas
Date 18/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 783511
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Fulwood Foundry, Burnbank Road, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire This shows the bases of the three modern cupolas serving the moulding shop. These were unusual in having the bases inside the moulding shop. In the foreground are bases for ingot moulds. The cupola on the left is ready for tapping. In 1971 the foundry was making a range of medium-sized castings, including small ingot moulds and bottom plates, spouts for launders for open-hearth furnaces, supports for roof bricks in soaking pits and moulds for pig-casting machines. The foundry closed in 1978, and has been demolished. This foundry was established in 1856, as the Hamilton Foundry, in Burnbank Road, Hamilton, by a Mr Frew. The company eventually became part of Colvilles Ltd, and in 1971 belonged to the British Steel Corporation. This is the smaller of its two foundries, the larger being in New Stevenston. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/45/14
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