Raab Karcher Timber, Swan Lake Mill - steam engine
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Raab Karcher Timber, Swan Lake Mill - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 23 Feb 1991
One of two Belliss & Morcom inverted vertical (enclosed) engines installed here secondhand. This is No. 9627 0f 1940 and originally installed in the Swastika Laundry, Ballsbridge, Dublin. It ran here until c1985 and was scrapped or removed c1999. It is a V type with cylinders 11" & 18" x 82 and running at 500 rpm to drive an alternator (in the foreground) by vee belts. In another part of the works there was a duplex non-rotative steam pump used on a tanalising plant and still in use. We were shown this but it wasn't being used on a Saturday morning.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.624394
Longitude
-1.147575