1983

TL6745 : Chauntry Mills, steam engine

taken 41 years ago, near to Haverhill, Suffolk, England

Chauntry Mills, steam engine
Chauntry Mills, steam engine
This is the cylinder end of the 1879 Hick, Hargreaves & Co Corliss engine. The Spencer & Inglis patent double clip trip gear is in the centre. Above the cylinder is the main stop valve (always stop and never a start valve) with the James Tate patent electric stop motion. This shuts off steam if an emergency stop button is pressed in the mill. A common device but given how long it takes an engine like this to stop any victim would only be slightly less mangled than if they didn't bother.

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Category: Steam engines
This photo is linked from: Galleries: · Textile Mill Engines Automatic Clusters: · Hargreaves Co of Bolton Engine Caroline [13] · Chauntry Mills [8] Title Clusters: · Chauntry Mills, steam engine [2] ·
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TL6745, 144 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 22 June, 1983   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 24 May, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 671 454 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:4.9033N 0:26.2760E
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