IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Holly Drive, AYLESBURY, HP21 8XS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Holly Drive, HP21 8XS by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (17 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
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Steam engine generator set, Aylesbury
This is an E Reader of Nottingham inverted vertical compound engine direct coupled to a Siemens dynamo (yes - DC). One of two at The Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Co. Ltd., Mandeville Road, Aylesbury. Installed 1910 and stopped late 70s. One was removed to Kew Bridge Steam Museum in 1987 and this one was removed to Nottingham Industrial Museum in 1989. There was no makers name on the engine but the company stated it was a Reader and an identical machine has been found in a Reader catalogue (QED).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jul 1988
0.10 miles
2
Bifurcated & Tubular Rivets, Aylesbury - boiler house
Now demolished works with two Lancashire boilers and a pair of inverted vertical compound (enclosed) steam engines driving dynamos. One engine is now at Nottingham Industrial Museum and the other is at Kew Bridge Steam Museum. The works is immortalised in the nearby Rivets Close.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jul 1988
0.10 miles
3
Bifurcated and Tubular Rivets - Weir pumps
This works has long since been demolished and immortalised in Rivets Close. These are a typical pair of Weir boiler feed pumps - duplicated for redundancy. These used to be very common but are now getting increasingly less common.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jul 1988
0.10 miles
4
Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Co Ltd - steam engine
This is an E Reader of Nottingham inverted vertical compound engine direct coupled to a Siemens dynamo (yes - DC). One of two at The Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Co. Ltd., Mandeville Road, Aylesbury. Installed 1910 and stopped late 70s. One was removed to Kew Bridge Steam Museum in 1987 and this one was removed to Nottingham Industrial Museum in 1989. There was no makers name on the engine but the company stated it was a Reader and an identical machine has been found in a Reader catalogue (QED).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jul 1988
0.10 miles
5
Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Co Ltd - steam engine
This is an E Reader of Nottingham inverted vertical compound engine direct coupled to a Siemens dynamo (yes - DC). One of two at The Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Co. Ltd., Mandeville Road, Aylesbury. Installed 1910 and stopped late 70s. One was removed to Kew Bridge Steam Museum in 1987 and this one was removed to Nottingham Industrial Museum in 1989. There was no makers name on the engine but the company stated it was a Reader and an identical machine has been found in a Reader catalogue (QED). The view from this side includes the steam separator with its steam trap and the oil cooler.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Jul 1988
0.10 miles
