SCOTLAND’S COKE OVEN PLANT
£250,000 INSTALLATION. GLASGOW, April 29. Jl.v pressing an electric .button, Lord Provost John Stewart of. Glasgow to-day set in motion at William Eixon’s Govan ironworks the first blast furnace coke oven plant to be operated in Scotland. In addition to .supplying huge quantities of coke per day this £250,000 plant will release valuable by-products. These by-products include 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily and it is intended that half this quantity will be used in the plant for heating, the. remainder being available for sale in bulk. It is possible’, that the purchaser will be the Glasgow Corporation oi the projected gas grid." 'l*lid 50 ovens should produce 182,UOO tons of metallurgical coke in a year and in view of the scarcity of such a blast furna’ce fuel this develop, incut is of . the greatest importance to Scottish industry on account, of the •expansion jit the pig iron trade. *
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1936, Page 10
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