Hawkesbury Junction - steam narrowboat Adamant - generator engine
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Hawkesbury Junction - steam narrowboat Adamant - generator engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 Jun 2013
Adamant is modelled on a Bridgwater Canal tug and uses the hulls of two Birmingham 'day boats' dating from c1897. The current engine is an inverted vertical compound built c1895 by Cochrane of Birkenhead. This show the small Stuart inverted vertical single cylinder (enclosed) engine that drives the battery charging dynamo by belt. Although to many people Stuart is synonymous with model engines the company did build these workmanlike full size engines (full size being a relative term). Engines of this type were supplied in WWII to drive generators for radios for use behind enemy lines - steam being raised in a wood fired water tube boiler. The whole was stored in a case that could be parachuted in.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.457354
Longitude
-1.470159