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2024-03-28T16:47:51+00:00text/html2021-11-02T22:42:31+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212709 0.143255TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - beats as it sweeps as it cleans!
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A National Gas Engine Co gas engine that was used at Eaden Lilley's carpet beating works in the city. It drove the carpet beating machine until one day a match in a carpet ignited and burnt the works down.text/html2021-11-02T22:30:38+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212709 0.143255TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam pump
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A Joseph Evans of Wolverhampton rotative 'banjo' pump from the local gasworks. The steam cylinder is on the left. The pump is of the 'Reliable' type with a piston valve and is adapted for pumping thicker liquids such as tar. The valve is also reversible for clearing blockages in the suction pipework.text/html2021-11-02T22:09:57+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212798 0.143260TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam engine from a paper mill
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From Towgood's paper mill at Sawston. This is an Ashworth and Parker of Bury inverted vertical duplex (enclosed) steam engine. It did have a variable speed drive with the governor driven by a pair of opposed tapered rollers with a drive belt that could be moved axially along their length (a bit like the Daf variomatic system). This is not visible in this view and does not appear to have been fitted but it was certainly recovered along with the engine. Although a duplex (two cylinders of the same size) engine is not as efficient as a compound, it is less relevant in a paper mill because the exhaust is used in the drying rolls and its latent heat is recovered as it condenses and gives up heat to the process (this is good integration of heat and power).text/html2021-11-02T21:43:13+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212709 0.143255TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam vacuum pump
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This is a lovely device but I believe it is often overlooked when the site is being photographed. It is an inverted vertical single cylinder steam engine driving a vacuum pump. It was built by Kestner (a company specialising in evaporators) and used at the Chivers factory at Histon. Fruit was boiled in a vessel under vacuum. The resulting fruit juices, now in concentrated form, were used as flavouring in their famous jellies.text/html2021-11-02T21:26:34+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212894 0.142971TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - outdoor exhibits
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The big red object is a Mather and Platt horizontal duplex non-rotative steam fire pump. It came from a local flour mill near Cambridge Station. It has been relocated here from the other side of the pumping station to make way for an access ramp.
The grey object is a Sulzer centrifugal pump from the pumping station that replaced the steam station that houses the museum. Sulzers took over the business of Hathorn, Davey of Leeds, which supplied the site's steam pumping engines in 1894. Also of interest, the original pumping station still survives (as a museum) but its replacement has now been demolished and the housing in the background is on its site.text/html2021-11-02T18:56:33+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien53.776289 -1.504077SE3231 : Thwaite Mills - Marshall diesel engine
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A large four cylinder semi-diesel (with externally heated cylinder heads) by Marshall Sons & Co Ltd of Gainsborough. Installed to drive the site's Raymond Mill used to make whiting. The engine room is very tight.text/html2021-11-02T18:44:55+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien53.776198 -1.503926SE3231 : Thwaite Mills, Leeds
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Former water powered putty and whiting mills that are now an industrial museum. The chimney indicates that there was once steam power while the two yhin black stacks indicate diesel power.text/html2021-09-18T19:39:39+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212709 0.143255TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam engine and gas exhauster
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This horizontal single cylinder engine and sliding vane gas exhauster were acquired many years ago and deserve to be displayed in better conditions and preferably put back into steam. The ensemble is an important link with the town gas industry and one of the few complete sets (of engine and exhauster) that can be seen in the UK. They were built in Chesterfield by the internationally renowned firm of Bryan Donkin & Co. Ltd.
The national neglect of a once important UK industry (that of manufactured gas) is little short of shameful in my opinion.text/html2021-09-18T19:25:37+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212613 0.143543TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam roller
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The 50th Birthday Bash marking 50 years of preservation activity at this former sewage pumping station. The roller is a single cylinder Aveling & Porter, works No. 9246 of 1920 and named William. This had actually worked on this site in commercial use and is preserved in the Cambridge area. There is a second roller largely hidden behind it.text/html2021-09-18T19:11:27+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.212717 0.142816TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - happy birthday!
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I was a very early volunteer at this site in the early 1970s whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge. I left for work but have stayed in touch and was made very welcome as a VIP for this 50th birthday 'bash'. The museum is centred on the Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping station that houses three generations of pumping machinery (steam, gas engine and electric motor). There is also a refuse destructor boiler plant that raised steam from burning domestic waste (energy from waste is not new).text/html2021-09-18T18:07:17+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien52.211969 0.144391TL4659 : Cambridge Museum of Technology - happy birthday!
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I was one of the very early volunteers at this site whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge. Although work took me away, I remain in touch with the volunteers and was made very welcome as a VIP for this special event. The site is based in the Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station that houses three generations of pumping plant (steam, gas engine and electric motor). It also houses examples of destructor technology that burnt domestic waste to raise steam (there is nothing new about energy from waste). There are also a wide variety of brought in exhibits ranging from prime movers to consumer electronics.text/html2021-09-18T17:57:59+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien54.370829 -2.922440SD4097 : Windermere Jetty Museum - steam launch Helen
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This little launch is privately owned and not part of the museum collection. Built 1982 by R Lower & sons at Newhaven and 16' long overall. The engine is a two cylinder compound by Stuart Turner Ltd of Henley and built in 1965. The boiler is by H A McEwen (Boiler Repairs) Ltd.text/html2021-09-18T17:55:12+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien54.370829 -2.922440SD4097 : Windermere Jetty Museum - steam launch Helen
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This little launch is privately owned and not part of the museum collection. Built 1982 by R Lower & sons at Newhaven and 16' long overall. The engine is a two cylinder compound by Stuart Turner Ltd of Henley and built in 1965. The boiler is by H A McEwen (Boiler Repairs) Ltd. text/html2021-09-18T17:36:55+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien54.370741 -2.922284SD4097 : Windermere Jetty Museum - engine on board speedboat Canfly
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Canfly was built in 1922 specifically to house this 7.4 litre beast of a petrol engine. It is an 85 horsepower 6 cylinder Rolls-Royce Hawk Mark I, serial No. 322. It was initially used in an airship. The boat was used for racing and as a support vessel for record attempts. The engine is now considered too rare to risk in operational use, so the vessel is displayed on dry land.text/html2021-09-18T17:09:40+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7518Chris Hodrien54.370741 -2.922284SD4097 : Windermere Jetty Museum - steam launch Branksome
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Now displayed on dry land, Branksome is a 50' steam launch built at Bowness in 1896. The engine is an inverted vertical compound by W Sisson of Gloucester, works No. 502 of 1896. The cylinders are 7.5" & 11" x 7" stroke. The boiler is a side fired locomotive boiler built by Hunslet of Leeds in 1971. Looking closely shows that there is some missing plumbing, the engine does not appear bolted down and the propeller shaft is not properly aligned with the coupling on the engine. However, at a glance all appears shipshape and Bristol fashion.