ICI Wallerscote - steam vacuum pumping engine
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ICI Wallerscote - steam vacuum pumping engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 May 1985
This soda ash works used to contain four large single cylinder engines by Walker Bros of Wigan. As built, three operated tail-rod compressors and one operated a tail-rod vacuum pump but one compressor was later converted to a vacuum pump. These were variously built in 1920 and 1921 and one was later preserved at Trencherfield Mill, Wigan but is now in store.
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Image Location
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53.266723
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