Stevenson & Cheyne

engineering works

Beside the Water of Leith, Bonnington, Edinburgh

A sheet of hot metal comes out of the oven  -  1993

 Edinburgh at Work  - Stevenson & Cheyne

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs.    Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                   Photograph taken February 18, 1993

 

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   Edinburgh at Work  - Stevenson & Cheyne, Bonnington, Edinburgh ©

 

Stevenson & Cheyne

Engineering Works

Rolling Metal

Here, a thick sheet of metal has been passed through one of the rollers at Stevenson & Cheyne, then the ends have been rolled to make the shapes seen below.

Stevenson & Cheyne, Bonninfton, Edinburgh ©

The next stage is to pass the metal through the rollers again to create a hollow cylinder of metal, perhaps later to become part of a boiler:

Edinburgh at Work  -  Stevenson & Cheyne, Bonnington, Edinburgh ©

 

Stevenson & Cheyne

Edinburgh at Work

     

 

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