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Preview	Category	Catalogue Number	Collection	Title	Date	Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60179	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of feed end of coating machine Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60180	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of feed end of coating machine Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60181	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of bonding press, with Malcolm Greaves displaying thedifferent elements of the board making up the fusehead combs Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60182	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of comb stamping machine, which stamps combs out of lamintaed board. The smaller machine on the right is the comb-end trimmer Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60183	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of rebate machine No.3 which adds the necessary grooves to the fuseheads whilst still on the comb Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60184	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of soldering machine No.3, which adds filament wire to the fuseheads whilst still in the comb Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60185	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of Lai Howie at examination bench, checking fusehead combs before next production stage Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60186	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of one of two dipping frames, on which racks of fusehead combs are dipped in sequences of dip mixture to make up the required fusehead compound. The different dips are colour-coded, and the fusehead is protected by outer layers to prevent accidental combustion Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60187 CN	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D15 (NS 2940 3994): Detail of one of two dipping frames, on which racks of fusehead combs are dipped in sequences of dip mixture to make up the required fusehead compound. The different dips are colour-coded, and the fusehead is protected by outer layers to prevent accidental combustion Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60188	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D14 (NS 2941 3998): Detail of Brenda Cain operating one of two dipping frames, on which racks of fusehead combs are dipped in sequences of dip mixtures to make up the required fusehead compound. The different dips are colour-coded, and the fusehead (which now resembles a match head) is protected by outer layers to prevent accidental combustion. Note that the dips are prepared in aluminium pans in building D13, which in part resembles a kitchen, and which requires the use of solvents Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60189 CN	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D15 (NS 2940 3994): Detail of Brenda Cain operating one of two dipping frames, on which racks of fusehead combs are dipped in sequences of dip mixtures to make up the required fusehead compound. The different dips are colour-coded, and the fusehead (which now resembles a match head) is protected by outer layers to prevent accidental combustion. Note that the dips are prepared in aluminium pans in building D13, which in part resembles a kitchen, and which requires the use of solvents Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60190	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D15 (NS 2940 3994): General interior view showing four rows of drying baths, in which racks of dipped fusehead combs are dried Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60191 CN	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D15 (NS 2940 3994): General interior view showing four rows of drying baths, in which racks of dipped fusehead combs are dried Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60192	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D16 (2938 3991): View of autotester machine, which both cuts the fusehead from the the combs and tests them. The military requires that the fuseheads are manually tested, an expensive and time-consuming process. They also require the dipping process to shape carefully the 'bulbs' of the fuseheads Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 60193	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	Building D16 (2938 3991): View of fusehead grading machine (No.3) Photosurvey 27 August 1995	27/8/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55394	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on magazines, with double-base prope9lants (centre) and detonators beyond	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55396	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on magazines and silicones works.	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55398	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view from S, with shore magazines in foreground and the chemicals, workshops and detonators beyond (left)	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55408	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on the Misk Gelatines works.	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55412	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on the fusehead production factory and sulphur house	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 55414	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on the sulphur house and the fusehead production factory.	4/9/1995	Item Level
	Photographs and Off-line Digital Images	C 47094		Ardeer ICI works. Explosives factory. Photographic copy of Interior view showing Propulsives Department - Ballistite graphiting and blending drum.		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 505332	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view.	4/9/1995	Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 505333	RCAHMS Aerial Photography	Ardeer, Nobel's Explosives Factory, oblique aerial view, centred on the Misk Gelatines works.	4/9/1995	Item Level