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Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner
Is this the contraption that looks like the buissines end of a paddlesteamer?
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Lol - possibly!
The engine part was displayed at Onslow for a number of years. Back in the year dot (1999 ish?) it was unloaded and sat on the grass, but all the subsequent years it was displayed on a flat-bed artic trailer. They'd have it coupled to a chuffin' big portable compressor that would just about get it to tick over slowly.
The Trust lent it to Apedale for display purposes a couple of years ago (2010 I think), but the winding drum that is associated with it
(which I think that weighs 20t on its own if I remember rightly) only went over and got bolted back together with it at the beginning of August this year.
13th September 2014, 07:08 PM
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