Kew Bridge Steam Museum

 

This lattice beam was cast in 1853 for the hammersmith station of the Grand Junction Water Company and was until recently preserved at Kempton Park Pumping Station.

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The magnificent collection of engines preserved at Kew Bridge Steam Museum are well represented on the internet. This page endeavours to celebrate some of the smaller engines displayed on the site.

  This little Bumpstead & Chandler engine of 1920 drove a centrifugal pump at Mill End Pumping Station until 1960.  A typical Greens Economiser soot scraping engine.  The vee twin barring engine on the horizontal cross compound from Waddon Pumping Station.

Horizontal Banjo tar pump by J Evans of Wolverhampton circa 1920.  Robey horizontal engine supplied to Truemans Black Eagle Brewery in 1900 where it worked until 1972. In the background is a Cameron vertical Banjo pump.  A better view of the Banjo pump by J Cameron & Co. of Manchester. Built about 1900 it worked in a Gloucestershire woolen mill.

    The reconstructed Lancashire boiler in its setting complte with Worthington feed pump.  A small Worthington horizontal duplex pump.  The boiler feed pump from the replica Lancashire boiler setting.

A Turney steam turbine driving a Pulsometer Co. centrifugal pump.    This little steam turbine generating set ran the entire lighting load for a pumping station.  Built by ES Hindley & Co. Ltd., Bourton , Dorset about 1890. The design was sold a suitable for driving a dynamo but this example worked all its life in a factory. 5.5" bore x 8" stroke.

A cruciform section cast iron connecting rod from a mid-Nineteenth Century beam engine.               A Pulsometer pump.

Alright, so I couldn't resist a shot of one of the big engines.

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