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Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Example of piston fitted with segmental ring

Model Bower and Qualters patent piston

Piston for High Pressure Air Compressor

Aluminium section of large diameter piston with matt anodised finish

1980

Patent N.P. pump Piston, 3 inches diameter.

Cycloidal rotary engine piston

Piston, complete with piston rod

Piston, complete with piston rod

Piston, probably for a model of an Atmospheric Engine

Piston, probably for a model of an Atmospheric Engine

Piston from Hot-air engine made by W. H. Bailey & Co. Ltd, Worsley, Salford, 1880.

Piston from W. H. Bailey & Co Hot-Air Engine

1880

2 windows on the top and the bottom front show the piston mechanism. 'Dowty' and 'Pats Phanding' on the silver round frame on the object.

Piston

Wrought iron piston ring, Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, believed to have been hand-made the driver of the locomotive, c1832-1847, presented to O V Bulleid by Mr R N Barton, Locomotive Foreman at Salisbury in 1946.

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway Piston Ring

1832-1847

High pressure Piston of an 1835 Beam Engine, made by Messrs. Wentworth and Sons of Wandsworth

High pressure Piston of an 1835 Beam Engine

Early piston 'Y' alloy aluminium (Cu 4%, Ni 2%, Mg 1.5%)

Early piston 'Y' alloy aluminium (Cu 4%, Ni 2%, Mg 1.5%)

Aluminium piston with hard chromium finish, c. 1980

Aluminium piston with hard chromium finish

1980

Valve head piston, Great Western Railway, Sectioned piston from, Driver's improvement class, Swindon, Dimensions: 2'2"x10?".

Valve head piston, Great Western Railway

Piston complete

Piston complete

Piston rod & gland.

Piston Rod & Gland