1989
TL5173 : Elderly diesel at Stretham Old Engine
taken 35 years ago, near to Stretham, Cambridgeshire, England
Elderly diesel at Stretham Old Engine
This is a Mirrlees 4 cylinder air blast diesel engine from the 1920s and drove a centrifugal drainage pump. All modern diesels are solid injection but earlier versions used air at about 1000 psi to blast fuel into the cylinder through a pulveriser that broke the spray into very fine droplets. The device closest to the camera is the blast air compressor. This might be the first one of these to feature on Geograph.
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