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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow And Company, Shipbuilding Yard

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Scanned image of Luftwaffe vertical air photograph of the south side of the River Clyde, Glasgow.
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Interior. Central Yard Steel preparation workshop. View of Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine and job crane (maximum plate width 9.14m, plant no. 5569) from North West.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from South West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with MG Corta CNC plasma burner right foreground and two MG 3 (CNC Plasma) burning beds to the left. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The Crane on the right is a 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995). The two beyond are 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996).
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. Stanchions dividing North and South Bays at the West end with integral EOT crane rails. These sanchions date from 1906.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1906 South Bay, East End and 18950s south Bay West end junction. View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine. (maximum plate width 3.05m).
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1950s) East End. General view from South East.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from North East. The junction between the 1950s extension (nearest the camera) and the original 1906 boiler shop clearly shown. Note the remnants of window voussoirs middle of the image. The wall below has been remodelled.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
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Central Yard, south wall, west end. General view of workshop from South East showing the remnants of the Travelling electric crane gantry and uprights (painted blue, left) from 1906 when this area was an open yard. It was later covered over and became the covered steel stockyard where the plate metal was kept out of the elements. This shed has since been demolished (in 2013), revealing the remnants of the original layout. The saw toothed roof of the original 1906 boiler shop is visible behind (latterly the Plate Preparation Shop).
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Oblique aerial view
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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company Shipbuilding Yard View from River Clyde
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1950s South and North BAys. General view from South West (called the South East Pend). Extreme right is a 5 Tonne Arrol EOT crane installed in 1996. A MAtterson 7.5 Tonne EOT Pendant Crane is on the left, Installed 1995) with another Matteson 7.5 Tonne EOT crane (North Bay Centre, instaled 1982).
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Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
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Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
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Glasgow, 739 South Street, North British Engine Works. View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676.
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View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company, Shipbuilding Yard View from ESE showing S half of NE front
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s), East End. View of magnetic lift attached to a 7500Kg crane and travelling overhead crane to which it is attached. The operators cab is on the right.
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of Panel Production Line. (installed 1995).
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Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
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Oblique aerial view
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Oblique aerial view
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