Former rolling mill drive - Landore
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Former rolling mill drive - Landore
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Jul 2012
This was latterly the copper rolling mill operated by Yorkshire Imperial Metals and retired in 1980. It is a scheduled monument. This shows the boss of the large built up second motion wheel that is rope driven from a John Musgrave uniflow engine built in 1910. The main bearing cap is off because the top 'brass' has been misappropriated - like an awful lot of the plant. I decided to post this when I realised how gorgeous the colours and textures are. This is probably the only gear reverse steam driven rolling mill left in the UK and the clutches are steam operated - a fact I've only learnt relatively recently.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.637392
Longitude
-3.934988