Wadworth, Northgate Brewery, Devizes - steam engine
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Wadworth, Northgate Brewery, Devizes - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 9 Apr 2024
This brewery has now closed and the engine is to be relocated to a visitor centre on the ground floor as its location is to be redeveloped. The business has relocated to a smaller modern brewery. Horizontal single cylinder engine by G. Adlam & Sons, Bristol. c1900. Stopped 1935. Preserved and was workable but had not run recently. Cylinder c12" x 20" with a simple slide valve. Steam pressure 100 psi, 100 rpm, 25 horsepower. Flywheel 7' diameter.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.353835
Longitude
-1.998658