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Interior View showing man working in dressing shop
SC 787486
Description Interior View showing man working in dressing shop
Date 30/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 787486
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Muirhall Foundry, Muirhall Road, Larbert, Falkirk This shows the interior of the dressing shop, with a fettler dressing a large casting, possibly a cylinder for an air compressor. On the right are benches for dressing smaller castings, and on the left are piles of dressed castings. This was one of the most advanced foundries in Scotland in 1971. It had three electric induction furnaces, and two cupolas, used to melt metal for the induction furnaces. They used a range of moulding techniques, including shell moulding, a method of spraying a coating of resin sand on to a pattern to form the mould. This foundry was established in 1920, and was in 1971 owned by Robert Taylor & Co (Iron founders) Ltd. It originally made 'Tayco' boilers, but switched during World War II to making bombs. By 1971 it was specialising in making engineering castings, many in special nickel alloys. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/36/15
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