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Electronic induction motor for Dry Cupping Vacuum Therapy

1980-1990

Stud motor starter, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Small example of three cylinder water pressure motor

'Demon' hydraulic motor, made by F.Pitman, Manchester, 1920

1920

Servo induction motor

"Little Giant" compressed air motor for drills etc.

Direct current motor with centrifugal governor

Encapsulated gas motor

1965-1975

Linear motor

1948

Electromechanical step-by-step motor

Electro-hydraulic servo motor - M35E hydraulic motor by Hydraulic Transmissions Ltd.

One sectioned 2 HP induction motor with cast aluminium squirrel cage motor

Ferranti electric motor, RD58

Gamma Motor Recovered from a Black Knight Rocket

Gamma Motor Chamber

Haag's patent oscillating cylinder water motor No.2

Portable DC mercury motor type Kilowatt-hour meter

Ferranti DC mercury motor type Kilowatt hour meter

Mather and Platt 5A 25HP motor from Snaefell Mountain Railway, Isle of Man.

Mathers and Platt 5A 25HP motor, Snaefell Mountain Railway

Electric heavy-duty motor: ‘The Croydon MOTOR’, 80 HP, one of two, by Croydon Engineering Co. Ltd., Croydon, Surrey, England, 1945-1948. Used to power Morse Creed telegraph equipment.

Heavy duty electric motor, for Morse Creed telegraph equipment

1945-1948
Crompton locomotive motor-1896, complete with wheels and armature direct on axle. Used on City and South London Railway

Crompton locomotive motor-1896

1896
Electric heavy-duty motor: ‘The Croydon MOTOR’, 80 HP, by Croydon Engineering Co. Ltd., Croydon, Surrey, England, 1945-1948. Used to power Morse Creed telegraph equipment.

Heavy duty electric motor, for Morse Creed telegraph equipment

1945-1948
Crompton Gramme wound D C motor - 1896, 15H.P., 600 rpm., 110v., and a spare armature

Crompton Gramme wound D C motor - 1896

1896
Electric motor for above

Electric motor

Stonechat rocket motor (1965-75)

Stonechat Rocket Motor

1965-1975
Phoenix 24 inch dual chamber rocket motor developed for use on Blue Water Mk2 (1958-62)

Phoenix Dual Chamber Rocket Motor

1958-1962
Motor and controller. Dated to 1901, and is one of the heavier lifting motors/traversing motor from an early crane, used at the Glover Works. Manufactured by Rolls Royce Ltd

motor

Electric motor with Gramme Ring armature, and carbon brushes. Driving shaft is horizontal, main magnet windings are mounted either side of the brushes, and the magnets extend beyond them either side of the armature. Mounted on small brass feet. DC current Used by F Robinsons Brewere until 1960.

motor

Replica of Barlow's Wheel, the first electric motor, consisting of a baseboard, on which is mounted a brass 'gallows', suspending a copper star wheel. Wheel just dips in a mercury bath, surrounded by a horse shoe magnet.

Barlow's Wheel

Group of six safed small solid rocket motors and venturi nozzles

Rocket motors

1950-1960
Induction motor, 3PH, 50bhp, by Metropolitan Vickers, ser. no. 433193/2/01, with centrifugal stereophagus pump by Hathorn Davey and Co. Ltd., Leeds, to the Hon. R.C. Parsons patent no. 26913, 1910

Induction motor

3 Phase, 400/440 V, 6 H.P., 960 RPM motor no. N5165. By City Electrical Company, London, c.1920-1930

3 Phase Motor

1920-1930
Zoom motor for 10-1 Zoom Angenieux Lens. For use with Arriflex 35mm cine camera.

Zoom Motor for 10-1 lens

1960s
Matterpan solid fuel rocket motor used in the Seaskua air-to-surface missile

Matterpan solid fuel rocket motor

Servo motor for vane control on German V2 rocket.

Servo Motor for Vane Control on German V2 Rocket.

Electric motor, Great Western Railway, 2.5HP 250 volt motor, on wooden stand. Thought to be the first made in Swindon Works 1902

Electric motor, Great Western Railway

1902
Troy solid fuel rocket motor (boost plus sustain) used in the Rapier surface-to-air missile

Troy solid fuel rocket motor

Crompton motor no.8129

Crompton motor no.8129

"Whitehall" motor

"Whitehall" motor

15.9 bhp D.C. Motor by the Electric Construction Company

15.9 bhp D.C. Motor

Vertical spindle marine motor

Vertical spindle marine motor

440v variable speed 3-phase AC commutator motor

440v variable speed 3-phase AC commutator motor

D C motor, Western Electric Co, Type G1, no.16241, 220 V, 5.2 A, 1 1/4 hp. 1250 rpm.

D C motor

Linear motor, 1953. The first back-to-back self-oscillating linear motor, built by Professor Laithwaite for investigating the use of linear motors to drive weaving shuttles. (Stationary winding type)

Linear motor

1953
Small searchlight motor, c.1900

Small searchlight motor, c.1900

circa 1900
Original prototype pole-amplitude modulated 2-speed induction motor, 1957, 8/10 pole

Original prototype pole-amplitude modulated 2-speed induction motor

1957
Crompton squirrel-cage induction motor no.27301- 1904, 2 1/2H.P., 950rmp. 220v. three phase, 50cycle, and starter

Crompton squirrel-cage induction motor

Crompton Gramme wound D C motor no.7026- 1888, 1/2H.P., 1550rpm, 100v.

Crompton Gramme wound D C motor no.7026- 1888

1888
Higgs motor no.132035, 18hp. (Originally used to power a Science Museum model in 1924).

Higgs motor no.132035

Crompton DC Motor no.133494 - 1920-1924, enclosed sleeve bearing

Crompton DC Motor no.133494

1920-1924