Steam for Steel
Series
- Series Name
- Babcock Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item shows something of the dramatic process of steel making at the new Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles Ltd., in Scotland. It indicates that much of the steel plate used by Babcock & Wilcox for the fabrication of boiler drums and pressure vessels comes from Colvilles, and visits the boiler house to show the three Babcock Bi-drum boilers that supply steam for power throughout the Ravenscraig Works. These boilers are fired by blast-furnace gas or oil, with provision for stoker firing with coke breeze from the works coke-ovens. The item concludes with scenes in the Babcock Works at Renfrew, where a plate from Ravenscraig is bent in a giant press, in the course of manufacturing a high-pressure boiler drum.
- Researcher Comments
- This story was made as part of Home and Away issue 13.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Engineering
- Written sources
- Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet unpaginated, Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.
- Producer
- Cyril Randell
- Director
- Peter Ward
- Editor
- Robert Morgan
- Production Co.
- Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.