Leeds Industrial Museum - hydraulic pumping engine
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Leeds Industrial Museum - hydraulic pumping engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 21 Nov 2009
This artefact has been in the same spot with nothing happening for over 30 years, but at least it survives and could be restored. It is a duplex steam hydraulic pumping engine that was built by Tannett Walker & Co of Leeds, possibly c1880s and was used to provide hydraulic power at Bow Common Gas Works, London. The slide valve cylinders are 14.375" x 21" and the flywheel is 6' diameter. It was removed in 1974. To the left is a Greenwood & Batley impulse steam turbine driving a generator via reduction gearing. This too is untouched.
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