View from NW showing incline to cupola

Description View from NW showing incline to cupola

Date 30/3/1971

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 784861

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cornton Foundry, Cornton Road, Bridge of Allan, Stirling This shows the charging platform for the large cupola, with the inclined railway used to take scrap and pig iron and coke up to the platform. Part of the cast-iron casing of the cupola can be seen through the opening at the top of the incline. In 1971 this foundry was still owned by a Mr Davie, who ran it with two employees, who moulded for a fortnight, then poured all the moulds at once. Most of the output was sold to Perth County Council and to Stirling Town Council. The foundry has since closed and been demolished. This foundry was built in 1940-2 by James Davie & Sons, iron founders and engineers, who had a foundry in the centre of Stirling where they made architectural castings and agricultural implements. The new foundry was built to make castings for the war effort. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/21/11

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap