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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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