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Publication Account
Date 1949
Event ID 1022030
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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In 1921 an installation of eight benches of vertical retorts was completed. The rated capacity was 18 million cubic feet per day, and the plant was at that time the largest installation in the world to be housed within one building. From 1940 to 1943 the retort portions of the benches [original 1903/1904 horizontal retorts] were rebuilt.
Two carburretted [blends air and fuel in internal combustion engine] gas units of a total capacity of 5 million cubic feet per day were put into operation in 1940 and a third stand by unit of 2.5 million cubic feet per day capacity was completed in 1943.
There are two gasholders having a total capacity of 16 million cubic feet.
The area of the works is approximately 123 acres. The total number of employees at these works is 524.
Coke Oven Gas: A supply of coke oven gas averaging 2.5 million cubic feet per day has been taken in at Provan Gasworks since May 1943 from the Gartsherrie Ironworks of Messrs Bairds and Scottish Steel Ltd.
Provan Gasworks supplied the north eastrn part of the sity in 1949 from area north to Bishopriggs, east to Gartcosh, and Easterhouse
Glasgow Corporation Gas Department, 1949
