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Actions	Shell production plant, [possibly at Lion Foundry site] To enquire about this item(s) please contact us archives@eastdunbarton.gov.uk Remove from selection Add to selection TitleShell production plant, [possibly at Lion Foundry site] ReferenceGD10/6/9/17/1 DateApr-Jun 1940 Scope and ContentLayout of number 3 shell plant as a 500 unit per week single shift unit for 8" Howitzer and 9.2 shells; shell machining index; suggested layout of plant for machining of 1000 shells per week with list of operations; layout of plant showing location of machines and subway to foundry [very large]; note with figures; schedule of operations for 5.5 inch and 6 inch Howitzer [5 pages]; schedule of operations 4.5 inch Howitzer [4 pages]; Drawings by Urquhart Lindsay Robertson Orchar Ltd, Dundee, indicating the layout of a shell casing production plant, possibly for the Lion Foundry Co Ltd to set up a plant at their site. Drawings are of a separate building with subway to foundry marked, building has an octagonal shaped chimney. Extent8 drawings, 3 documents Archival historyReceiving steel forgings and machining them, not filling with explosives, this possibly would have been done at Bishopston Ordnance Works? Found with shelters, originally listed as steel shelter. Level of descriptionfile Repository nameEast Dunbartonshire Archives - Kirkintilloch Hierarchy browser GD10 Lion Foundry Co Ltd fonds contains 9 parts GD10/6 Production Records sub-fonds contains 11 parts GD10/6/9 Drawings series contains 25 parts GD10/6/9/17 Munitions sub-series contains 1 part(s) GD10/6/9/17/1 Shell production plant, [possibly at Lion Foundry site] file

TitleShell production plant, [possibly at Lion Foundry site]

ReferenceGD10/6/9/17/1

DateApr-Jun 1940

Scope and ContentLayout of number 3 shell plant as a 500 unit per week single shift unit for 8" Howitzer and 9.2 shells; shell machining index; suggested layout of plant for machining of 1000 shells per week with list of operations; layout of plant showing location of machines and subway to foundry [very large]; note with figures; schedule of operations for 5.5 inch and 6 inch Howitzer [5 pages]; schedule of operations 4.5 inch Howitzer [4 pages]; Drawings by Urquhart Lindsay Robertson Orchar Ltd, Dundee, indicating the layout of a shell casing production plant, possibly for the Lion Foundry Co Ltd to set up a plant at their site. Drawings are of a separate building with subway to foundry marked, building has an octagonal shaped chimney.

Extent8 drawings, 3 documents

Archival historyReceiving steel forgings and machining them, not filling with explosives, this possibly would have been done at Bishopston Ordnance Works? Found with shelters, originally listed as steel shelter.

Level of descriptionfile

Repository nameEast Dunbartonshire Archives - Kirkintilloch