Circular radiators in Scotland

Thanks so much for posting these @Erin Holohan Haskell! What I thought was really interesting was that they were imported from the US over to the UK around 1899, before ARC had built their foundry in Britain (and in any case, they never made this model in the UK). I think it illustrates both the reputation of the American Radiator Company at that time and the scale of ambition for the building!

Has @Nick_Castrads seen the radiators at Henry Ford Museum:

Those rads were shipped in halves and then joined together after being placed around the columns. Notice how the two halves are piped as individual rads.

And that bleed valve is a dead ringer for the ones in my house, which are 100 years old this year.

Before the Lyric Theater/Opera House in Baltimore was remodeled in the 1980s, it had circular steam radiators around the columns of the lounges. I don't remember what brand they were. Obviously they are long gone now.

Those radiators are incredible. The first pic from further away, I thought I was seeing a modern Euro design. The up close see they are decorative cast iron. Great post! The Henry Ford museum radiators are pretty nice too.

What a beast! @Dennis1679 that looks like an IRSAP steel column radiator to me - made in Northern Italy. Very good quality.

When we were there we spent an entire day at Greenfield Village and about 3/4 of a day in the museum. In my opinion, that wasn't enough time to see everything, especially the museum. It really is incredible, even the building itself is amazing.

I found this Round Radiator in a store located in In Southampton called Hildreth's. It opened in 1842.

@Nick_Castrads , thinking up some molds for curved radiators? 😁

That's a real beauty. I take it that's Southampton, Massachusetts right (as opposed to Southampton England)?

In Southampton, England, a store that opened in 1842 would be "the new store."

@mattmia2 no, both the ones in Edinburgh that I photographed and the one @bmcservice posted from Southampton are threaded nipples. In my experience push nipples are a lot less common in the UK than they are in the US.

The sections are screwed together one by one so the angle is only ever n secs / 360º = 12º for a 30 section radiator.

The Lovely Naoko just rolls her eyes when I do that ;-)

Slightly off topic, but I have two beautiful steam only radiators that I just can't bear to scrap. Don't know what to do with them however. Also know of several very decorative big wall-hung cast rads and a couple floor mount rads in a local church that are decommissioned and they want taken out. I just hate to scrap those beauties. I love seeing those things still in use but space seems to be a premium in most houses.

Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. If you need more info let me know.

See my previous post. I would have to get into the church to get pictures of the others. I'll see if on some odd chance I have pics on my phone. It's been a couple years ago.