re:- The site plan of Lucy Foundry in Oxford.
Hi!
I hate to be a bore but the drawings on the document (
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/ARCH-METALS/Lucy_foundry_1878.pdf ) seem to
be the sort of "Architectural Presentation" that gets made up to support an
application for a zoning change, expansion plans, or similar.? Perhaps the
layout shown were "as wished for" rather than the actual machinery layout
While doing Plant Planning, I have used similar sketches to lay on the board
room table for the senior managers to see in order to give them an idea of
what their capital (money) will be turning into. I've also done up similar
sketches to take to Municipal Council meetings to illustrate our proposals &
applications. I've found that too much in the way of technical details can
lead to visual obfuscation & the "Big Hats" are prompted ask too many
"knowledgeable" questions of little help to the proceedings!
But perhaps officials were not hung up on paper then as they are now!
Ralph (Gus) Gustafson, AScT
Keating Forge
Victoria BC
(250) 652-1864
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From: "Peter King" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Request from off-list
> If 'foundry' is the correct description there certainly ought to be a
> foundry cupola (or possibly an air furnace) in order to melt the pig iron
> that was to be cast. There might also be a pattern maker's shop. This is
> not quite the kind of pattern you refer to.
>
> I must say that the building looks to me more like a shell than a working
> entity, in the form that appears on the plan. It looks to me merely like
> a
> standard industrial building of two bays, the width of the bays being
> determined by the size of the site and the width that could be spanned
> with
> the technology of the day. I presume that the roof trusses are of iron,
> whether cast or wrought.
>
> Whether there might be machine bases depends on what they were making; in
> other words. To what extent, did the products have to be processed after
> they were cast by founders or were forged by smiths? Did they have to be
> turned, bored or ground?
>
> Peter King
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arch-Metals Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Peter Hutchison
> Sent: 15 April 2005 19:10
> To: Peter King
> Subject: Re: Request from off-list
>
> Three points
>
> The room to the right of the engine house is surely "core drying"
>
> There is no melting furnace shown.
>
> In the blacksmiths shop I used to know the hearths were of different sizes
> and so were the workplaces. Some heatng was in furnaces.
>
> I guess the dotted rectangles may be the architects ideal rather than
> where
> things were actually installed.
>
> Peter Hutchison
>
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