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Interior View showing light moulding shop
SC 786022
Description Interior View showing light moulding shop
Date 8/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 786022
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Firhill Iron Works, Panmure Street, Glasgow This shows the central bay of the light moulding shop, with small moulds ready for pouring in the centre. On the left is a mould for a curved pipe in course of preparation. Note the light crane for moving moulding boxes and castings. 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 H35/71/28/3
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/786022
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