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View from SW showing part of Robberhall Road frontage
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Anderson Boyes and Co. Ltd. Works, Craigneuk Street, Motherwell. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.
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Anderson Boyes and Co. Ltd. Works, Craigneuk Street, Motherwell. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.
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Anderson Boyes and Co. Ltd. Works, Craigneuk Street, Motherwell. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Heat Treatment (Dept. 12, west bay built 1945): Interior view from north west in the west bay of one of three Wild Barfield Carbo-drip heating furnaces, and cooling pot (right). The furnace is fuelled by clean endothermic gas (produced by a generator on the other side of the bay), and heat treatment is required for the hardening of components of machines, such as gears.
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Heat Treatment (Dept. 12, west bay built 1945): Interior view from north east in west bay, showing two Ipsen sealed quench heat-treatment furnaces (TQ 7 left, and TQ 9 right). Both are fired by pure endothermic gas from an adjacent gas producer. Heat treatment is required for the hardening of components of machines, such as gears. The furnaces are loaded from a rail-mounted conveyor (foreground).
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Gear Cell (recently erected): Interior view from north down east bay, showing ranges of gear-cutting machine-tool centres
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from south west of machine shop bays, the nearest bays (right) dating from the opening of the works in 1899, the further bays originating from a sequence of expansions in 1912, 1922, 1924 and 1954
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior general view of detached block of new Machine Shops occupying east side of works (nearer lower bays built 1942, further bays built in 1962)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Detail of ornamental coping on top of The Tower, forming north part of the original 1899 office building
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Fitting Shop (Dept. 51, built 1962): Interior view of east bay from north showing assembled machines. To right and left are Road-header (tunnelling) machines, the machine to right being an RH45 ordered for the Ukraine
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Fitting Shop (Dept. 51, built 1962): Interior view of N end of west bay from south, showing a Shearer being assembled (left)
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Oblique aerial view of Craigneuk St, Motherwell, centred on the Anderson Boyes Works, taken from the SE.
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Fitting Shop (Dept. 51, built 1962): Interior view of N end of west bay from south, showing a Shearer being assembled (left)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Machine Shop (Dept. 30, built 1923): Interior view from W down centre of three bays. The machine tools have been moved to other parts of the factory, and the building is now disused
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Heat Treatment (Dept. 12, west bay built 1945): Interior view from north east in west bay, showing two Ipsen sealed quench heat-treatment furnaces (TQ 7 left, and TQ 9 right). Both are fired by pure endothermic gas from an adjacent gas producer. Heat treatment is required for the hardening of components of machines, such as gears. The furnaces are loaded from a rail-mounted conveyor (foreground).
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from west north west of main office buildings, including the original 1899 offices (centre and right), and new offices to left (built in 1962)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from south west of south end original 1899 office block
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from south west of Pattern Shop (left, built 1920), and Marking Shop (built 1911)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from north west of Boiler House (built 1955). The tall brick square-section chimney stack was demolished in about 1995
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from south west of range of bays containing stores and production control labs (from right to left, dating from 1942, 1937, 1951 and 1955)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes Exterior view from south east of bays containing former Experimental and Electrical Departments, the outside bays of which were built in 1948, the centre bay dating from 1919
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes View from south east of rear of Canteen (built 1920 and 1963). The centre of the three windows (now boarded up) contained a stained glass Anderson Boyes logo (see D 25913 & D 25914/CN)
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Motherwell, Craigneuk Street, Anderson Boyes General view from south west of Anderson Boyes Flemington Electrical Works, originally opened in 1899, closed 6 March 1998
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