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

1815

Piston for High Pressure Air Compressor

Model Bower and Qualters patent piston

Piston

Example of piston fitted with segmental ring

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

Aluminium section of large diameter piston with matt anodised finish

1980

High pressure Piston of an 1835 Beam Engine

Cycloidal rotary engine piston

1901-1907
Piston, probably for a model of an Atmospheric Engine

Piston, probably for a model of an Atmospheric Engine

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
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
Piston, complete with piston rod

Piston, complete with piston rod

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 with metallic packing

Piston complete

c.1874
Early piston 'Y' alloy aluminium (Cu 4%, Ni 2%, Mg 1.5%)

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

Piston rod & gland.

Piston Rod & Gland