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Carron: Scotland's Forge |
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Carron manufactured an amazing range of products – from artillery and ordnance for the army, pots and pans for domestic purposes to postboxes, telephone boxes and manhole covers the world over.
The demands of war and the heavy industry still based around central Scotland kept the Carron works busy for most of the first half of the 20th Century, but after World War II, the decline in the traditional Scottish industries, together with competition from abroad, led to a decline in the fortunes of the plant. Attempts at product diversification were made, but it was too late to do much more than stave off the inevitable. In 1982 the axe fell on Carron, and amid much protest, led by the SNP and newly founded SDP, the gates finally closed on over two centuries of metal working at Carron.
However, this is not the end of the iron industry in the Falkirk area, as many smaller foundries still survive in the area and a company called Carron Phoenix carries on the great name adjacent to the original foundry – even if it manufactures sinks, not cannons.
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