Photo Album - Erection of 80 Retorts, Hopetoun Oil Works
code: LVSAV2009.028 Page 1
Description
Inside cover of a photograph album that contains 46 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.
Handwritten note reads 'Snap shots taken to illustrate the progress made in the erection of a Bench of 80 Young & Fyfe Retorts at Hopetoun Oil Works for Messrs Youung's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co. Ltd. Order given 30th August 1906. Completion promised 30th Nov 1906.
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.
