Lytham Motive Power Museum - steam engine
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Lytham Motive Power Museum - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jan 1992
This museum was owned by a private individual and housed in his engineering works at Lytham St Annes. When visited it had closed and the exhibits were to be auctioned off on 1st March 1992. I believe that the current company - Helical Technology - still retains a museum on site with some vintage technology. The main focus of this photograph is an inverted vertical compound test engine. This came from Blackburn Technical College and was built by Harker & Sons (Eng) Ltd of stockton-on-Tees. The high pressure cylinder has a piston valve operated by Stephenson link motion and the low pressure has a Meyer slide valve. It has two Pickering governors and could be operated in a variety of modes. This pretty machine was not for sale and I suppose it may remain in the current museum that I have not seen. Hanging above it is lot 77 - a Rolls Royce RA7 'Avon' jet engine from a Mark 4 Hawker Hunter. I did not photograph the railway locomotives that were also in the sale.
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