1989

TL5173 : Elderly diesel at Stretham Old Engine

taken 35 years ago, near to Stretham, Cambridgeshire, England

Elderly diesel at Stretham Old Engine
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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Category: Pumping station
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TL5173, 75 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 17 June, 1989   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 6 December, 2007
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 516 730 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:20.0530N 0:13.4655E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 516 730
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