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Treves Green, AYLESBURY, HP21 9PU

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

Harvey Road junction with Mandeville Road

Viewed looking towards Aylesbury from the Mandeville Road pedestrian crossing, this is the opposite view to Image The 1884 Ordnance Survey map shows how the railway cut through the original road to Stoke Mandeville from Aylesbury at this location and why the diversion route of the current road had to be constructed to the east of the railway, beyond the bushes to the right. This is the site of the long since closed South Aylesbury Halt, as shown on the 1940s Ordnance Survey mapping.

Viewed looking in the opposite direction to Image towards Princes Risborough from the Mandeville Road pedestrian crossing. The bridge in the distance is for the Churchill Avenue road crossing.