{"id":469,"date":"2010-08-29T22:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:51:15","slug":"rof-bishopton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/explosives\/rof-bishopton\/","title":{"rendered":"ROF Bishopton Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another batch of pictures from this massive explosives factory. The full history of Bishopton is covered in my previous report<\/a>, and in much more detail in my book Explosive Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First up, the Factory I guncotton plant – These beaters were used to chop up the nitrocellulose slurry:<\/p>\n

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Next the vat houses, where the nitrocellulose was steeped:<\/p>\n

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This one cracked me up – the poster says, very faintly, “ROF Bishopton Fire Instructions”<\/p>\n

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Then the dipping tubs, where cotton fibres were soaked in acid:<\/p>\n

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More steeping:<\/p>\n

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Next pulping and blending:<\/p>\n

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Now onto the neighbouring nitrocellulose plant – nitrocellulose is very similar to guncotton, just made with paper cellulose instead of cotton cellulose.<\/p>\n

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Now onto nitroglycerine manufacture.<\/p>\n

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The most dangerous place in the factory – the nitroglycerine nitration building. These blew up without warning on several occasions.<\/p>\n

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Now the ball powder section.<\/p>\n

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Now the cordite presses:<\/p>\n

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Finally, the drum blenders…<\/p>\n

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All images:<\/p>\n

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Another batch of pictures from this massive explosives factory. The full history of Bishopton is covered in my previous report, and in much more detail in my book Explosive Scotland. First up, the Factory I guncotton plant – These beaters were used to chop up the nitrocellulose slurry:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explosives","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4922463161_fd63de16f6_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-7z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}