Interior View showing tapping of cupola
SC 786018
Description Interior View showing tapping of cupola
Date 8/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 786018
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Firhill Iron Works, Panmure Street, Glasgow This shows the single cupola being tapped into a ladle. It is continuously tapped, with a tilting 'tundish' so that the stream of molten iron, which runs down the sloping launder can be directed to right or left into one of the two ladles. The ladle in the foreground is waiting to be filled. This foundry was still owned in 1971 by Shaw & McInnes Ltd. It made flanged pipes up to 1.2m in internal diameter, all moulded in carbon dioxide sand, a technique in which the mould is made with sand mixed with sodium silicate, and then hardened by treatment with carbon dioxide gas. This foundry was established in 1866 by Shaw & McInnes, a company that could trace its origins back to 1846, when it was founded by James and John Shaw. This complex was built on the north bank of the eastern Firhill basin on the Forth & Clyde Canal. It specialised in pipe-founding. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/28/9
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