Compressor engine, Fishburn Coking Works
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Compressor engine, Fishburn Coking Works
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 2 Nov 1986
A Belliss & Morcom steam engine direct coupled to a Belliss & Morcom coke oven gas compressor. Built c1952, stopped 1986 and believe scrapped 1987. A whole load of these were installed in coke works in the north-east in the mid-1950s. All now gone.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.678181
Longitude
-1.443215