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Coal Miner 5th May 2009 03:55 PM

Leawood Pump.
 
This impressive beam engine driven pump, built by Graham & Co. of Elscar in 1849, pumps 4 tons of water per stroke from the River Derwent into the Cromford Canal. It was in steam yesterday and attached should be a few pictures.
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/ttu/00005550.jpg
Exterior view.
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/ttu/00005547.jpg
Locomotive style boiler made by Hawthorne Leslie & Co. in 1900.
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/ttu/00005548.jpg
Top of the 50 inch diameter steam cylinder.
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/ttu/00005549.jpg
Parallel motion connecting the piston rod to the twin plate beam.
Barry.


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