Photo Album - Cast Iron Retorts
code: LVSAV2009.028 Page 14
Description
1 page in a photograph album containing black and white photographs taken to illustrate the progress made in the erection of a bench of 80 Young & Fyfe retorts at the Hopetoun Oil Works for Messrs Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Ltd
Work undertaken by A. F. Craig & Company Ltd.
Hopetoun Oil works was established in c 1873 by the Uphall Mineral Oil Company, which was absorbed by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company in 1884. This design of retort was presumably a development of the Young and Beilby retort incorporating improvements made by John Fyfe of Young's Company.
Page annotations read '6th November 1906 All Cast Iron Retorts in Place' and '6th November 1906 Building in Cast Iron Retorts'