Iron Ladle and Scale Car, Kirkleatham Museum
Hidden away in a staff car park and with no information board.
Iron was poured into this vessel and taken to the caster plant and tipped into “pigs”
The other unusual item is apparently a scale car from the Cleveland Iron Plant. It picked up the charge for the blast furnace before dumping it in the furnace hopper cars.
The “Old Hall” museum itself is always worth a visit, although it was actually the Free School built in 1709 perhaps by William Wakefield or Robert Hooke
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:18 am
I have often walked passed this exhibit and wondered what it was. Thanks for the explanation!