Oak Mount Mill, Wiseman Street - steam engine
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Oak Mount Mill, Wiseman Street - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 26 Mar 1994
Also known as Wiseman Street Mills. I missed this running by about two weeks in 1979. It is now preserved and can be turned by an electric motor. Information from Colin Bowden: - Horizontal cross compound gear drive steam engine. Probably built by W. & J. Yates, Blackburn in 1887. Rebuilt by Burnley Ironworks Co. Ltd., Burnley, as works No.99 in 1912. New high pressure cylinder by Cole, Marchent & Morley Ltd., Bradford in 1947. Stopped when the mill closed in 1979. Preserved. Cylinders are 17.5/8" & 30" x 42". Corliss valves on the high pressure cylinder with governor-controlled trip gear and a simple slide valve on the low pressure cylinder. Steam pressure: c.140-150 psi, 60-62 rpm, 350 horsepower. Flywheel: 14ft diameter. This view shows the low pressure cylinder and its valve chest on the right. The low pressure piston tail rod operates the single acting air pump of the combined jet condenser and air pump assembly that occupies the left hand half of the image. The slide valve tail rod operates the smaller boiler feed pump that has the 'inverted teardrop shaped' air vessel mounted above it.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.78999
Longitude
-2.252236