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50 inch 'Bull' engine

50 inch "Bull" engine built by Harvey & Co., Hayle, Cornwall, in 1876-7 for the iron shaft at Severn Tunnel Pumping Station, Sudbrook, Monmouthshire

50 inch 'Bull' engine

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Handrails for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Handrails for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

1876-1877

Staircase Handrail for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Staircase Handrail for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

5 Cast Side Plates and Top Plate

5 Cast Side Plates and Top Plate

Rail for Pump Pit

Rail for Pump Pit

Rod for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Rod for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

1876-1877

Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine

1876-1877

Bottom beam, front of engine furthest away from pit.

Bottom Beam

Bottom beam, rear (nearest towards pit).

Bottom beam, rear (nearest towards pit)

Cylinder with nozzles and bottom cover (lacking gland)

Cylinder with nozzles and bottom cover

Column

Cylinder beam, front

Cylinder beam, front

Length of feed pipe marked GWR Co

Length of feed pipe marked GWR Co

Cylinder beam rear

Cylinder beam rear

11 [checker?] rolled tread-plates for working floor, and a disc of plate to go under steam valve bonnet

11 checker? rolled tread-plates for working floor

Transom

Piston, complete with piston rod

Piston, complete with piston rod

Guide frame for piston rod cap, left (as seen from front).

Guide Frame for Piston Rod Cap

Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces.

Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces

Condenser cistern with condenser and air pump complete with bucket, rod and cover

Condenser cistern with condenser and air pump complete with bucket

4 bolts of 9 nuts for fixing piston rod gland

4 bolts of 9 nuts for fixing piston rod gland

Cataract loop and 2 guides for cataract rod

Cataract loop and 2 guides for cataract rod

3 catches from plug frame

3 catches from plug frame

Feed pump with plunger & rod, complete with loop, brasses, gib & cotter; foot bracket (fits to 18). Suction clack with relief bypass, delivery clack, shut off cock and tee; lever and weight removed.

Feed Pump

Beam with gudgeon stool, links (complete) and loop for plug rod and air pump rod. The pin for the piston rod cap is not fitted

Beam with gudgeon stool

Bridging joist for working floor.

Bridging Joist for Working Floor

Cylinder cover

Brass cleading ring for top of cylinder

Brass cleading ring for top of cylinder

Black museum box of approximately 31 screw-caps and associated parts (such as nuts and bolts). Parts of the 50 inch "Bull" engine built by Harvey and Company Limited, Hayle, Cornwall.

Brass Screw-Cap Grease Lubricators

1876-1877

7 cast brackets (1 broken in eye) and 6 stanchions (1 with broken shank. All have top pins cut off) for gallery around cylinder. Note : Piece of curved handrail removed from this lot and put with other pieces found later, item 67

7 cast brackets and 6 stanchions

4 cast valve bonnets.

4 cast valve bonnets

Cast cleading plate for cylinder bottom

Cast cleading plate for cylinder bottom

3 swinging guides for rods (item 47) with 6 bearing pieces (1 broken & corner lost) and 5 rubber bumpers

3 swinging guides for rods

Guide frame for piston rod cap, right

Guide frame for piston rod cap, right

Beam forming cill of weigh frame

Beam forming cill of weigh frame

Main steam valve

Main steam valve

Cast side plates (3 long & 1 short) and 4 cast top plates for cleading the plinth around the cylinder

Cast side plates

Column spindel with crank, loose crank, lever and push rod with two clevis pins for injection cock

Column spindel with crank

Spindle, handwheel and bracket for steam valve

Spindle, handwheel and bracket for steam valve

Piston rod cap with gib and cotter for piston rod, head of pump rod and y pieces assembled.

Piston Rod Cap with Gib and Cotter for Piston Rod

3 hanging rods with weights from arbors complete with clevis pins etc

3 hanging rods with weights

Lever and weight of relief valve.

Lever and Weight for Relief Valve

Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces

Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces

Weigh post right with frame bolts and nuts and studs & nuts for arbor bearing

Weigh post right with frame bolts and nuts and studs

Iron staircase (1 tread broken but piece present) with wooden boards held to back by iron straps and dog bolts (wood in poor condition)

Iron staircase

Stop for pump rod, comprising two halves to clamp around rod, and two pad plates, one with wooden pad and 5 bolts for the other

Stop for pump rod

2 slippers for piston rod cap guides.

2 slippers for piston rod cap guides

Fragments of wooden cylinder cleading

Fragments of wooden cylinder cleading

4 cylinder holding down bolts with nuts & washers

4 cylinder holding down bolts with nuts & washers

10 handrail stantions from stairs item 60 (some have tops broken off, one has broken foot); 13 similar stantions for horizontal rail on front of working floor (one broken) and one heavier corner stantion

Handrail stantions from stairs

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