Glass Horse 2017
Charging/Scale Car
Scale cars such as this were used to weigh materials - such as coke - which were then deposited into the furnace. The two buckets (known as hoppers) on the front of the car would be weighed by the car's operator in the cab. The cab would then travel to the number 5 Bessemer furnace at Cleveland ironworks and unload it's content to continue the metallurgic process. This scale car was used extensively throughout the latter half of the 20th century until the closure of the Teesside plant in the 1980's
Charging/Scale Car
Scale cars such as this were used to weigh materials - such as coke - which were then deposited into the furnace. The two buckets (known as hoppers) on the front of the car would be weighed by the car's operator in the cab. The cab would then travel to the number 5 Bessemer furnace at Cleveland ironworks and unload it's content to continue the metallurgic process. This scale car was used extensively throughout the latter half of the 20th century until the closure of the Teesside plant in the 1980's