| F. H. Lloyd & Company
Limited - The early 1930s |
| This section consists of photos of some of the
many products that were made at the steel works in
the early 1930s, along with views inside the
factory. The company always strived for uniformity
in its products, thanks to the up-to-date plant, the
specialists who worked on each stage of production
and two generations of people with continuous
experience in the production of steel castings of
the highest order. At this time, the company had
produced around a quarter of a million steel
castings since production began. |
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Moulds in the heavy foundry
section that have just emerged from the drying stoves,
prior to casting. |
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One of the casting bays in the
heavy foundry. |
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Coring-up moulds in the heavy
foundry. |
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Wheel centre moulds in the heavy
foundry, ready for casting. |
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One of the 20 ton open hearth
furnaces in the heavy foundry. |
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Filling a ladle from a furnace in
the heavy foundry. |
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The pattern Shop. |
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Patterns in the pattern shop, laid
out ready for checking. |
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A large pattern being made ready
for the foundry. |
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Steel being poured in the light
foundry. |
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The light foundry. |
Molten iron running from a
cupola furnace into an intermediate ladle for the
desulphurisation process, in the light foundry. |
Pouring molten iron into a
converter where it will be subject to a blast of air to
oxidise any remaining manganese, silicon or carbon. |
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Stirring the molten metal and the
recently added alloying elements in a furnace in the
light foundry. |
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Pouring steel into a teeming ladle
in the light foundry. |
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Casting in the light foundry. |
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A bed plate casting for a
Ruston-Bucyrus excavator after final machining. |
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Another component for a
Ruston-Bucyrus excavator, also after final machining. |
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