Photo Album - Building Condenser Foundation
code: LVSAV2009.028 Page 6
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 '2nd October 1906 Building Condenser Foundation' and '9th October 1906 Starting Iron Work of Condenser'