J W Ward & Son Ltd, Sawmill, Bourne End, steam engine
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J W Ward & Son Ltd, Sawmill, Bourne End, steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 18 Jun 1980
A secondhand Davey, Paxman Lentz type horizontal tandem compound engine. This was built in 1926 and designed for 250 brake horsepower. It was still workable in 1980 but was removed for private preservation in 1982. I later saw it in the open in bits at a factory on Plumstead Marshes but it was subsequently scrapped. There is one other in the UK but that is also dismantled and in store in Somerset.
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Image Location
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51.744345
Longitude
-0.52547