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- David Colville & Sons, a Scottish iron and steel company, was founded in 1871 and it opened its Dalzell Steel and Iron Works at Motherwell in 1872.
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David Colville & Sons, a Scottish iron and steel company, was founded in 1871 and it opened its Dalzell Steel and Iron Works at Motherwell in 1872.
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When the Dalzell Works made steel for the first time in 1881 it was the first Scottish malleable ironworks to make the move to steel production. Dalzell steel was soon used in another iconic piece of civil engineering, the Forth Bridge. This was the first large-scale structure to be built of steel.
To meet the rapidly-growing demand for mild steel in boilermaking and shipbuilding, David Colville built the Dalzell steel works on ground adjoining his ironworks, manufacturing steel by the Siemens process. The new plant was completed by February 1881 [1] 1880 'HUGE CASTING.
Sep 28, 2016 · Steel production in Scotland grew from 1,199 tons in 1873 to 58,500 tons in 1890. During WW1, the Colvilles took over and enlarged Clydebridge and Glengarnock steelworks with the latter being...
Engineering works grew up near the railway, along Park Street in particular and in 1880 David Colville’s Dalzell Iron Works began steel production, soon to be followed by the Lanarkshire Steel Company’s works at nearby Flemington.
The Ravenscraig steelworks, operated by Colvilles and from 1967 by British Steel Corporation, consisted of an integrated iron and steel works and a hot strip steel mill. They were located in Motherwell , North Lanarkshire , Scotland.
In the six years since 1914, Colvilles had grown from a single firm turning out about 318,000 tons of steel ingots from one work in Motherwell to a well-knit group of allied concerns melting around 815,000 tons a year in three big plants.
