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Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

steam engine

1887

Brass component from Cornish Pumping Engine

1862

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

1870

Cornish Pumping Engine Model built by Harvey & Co

1862

Grasshopper Engine

1840

Firgrove Mill Steam Engine

1907

John Dugdill & Co. Horizontal Engine

1890

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Vertical Steam Engine

Ashworth & Parker Electricity Generating Set

1910

Haydock Colliery Steam Engine

1830

Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine

1860

John Wood Diagonal Reciprocating Steam Engine

1890

Ferranti Steam Alternator

1900

Elm Street Mill Cross-Compound Steam Engine

1926
Model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24), made by Maudslay, Sons and Field Limited, Lambeth, London, 1807

Model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807
Trevithick's original model road locomotive engine, unsigned, British, 1796-1802. This model is possibly constructed by either Richard Trevithick, or Whitehead & Co., of Manchester.

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

1796-1802
Early high pressure steam engine and feed water heater of Trevithick type, colloquially referred to as the Ingestre engine, 1840-50 but quite possibly earlier.

Early high pressure steam engine and feed water heater of Trevithick type

1840-50
Willans three cylinder reversing steam engine no. 229 by Hunter and English from crane vessel "Leviathan"

Willans three cylinder reversing steam engine

Cornish Pumping Engine built by Harvey & Co of Hayle, Cornwall, for display at the International Exhibition of 1862

Cornish Pumping Engine, 1862

1862
Single cylinder slide valve, horizontal steam engine with trunk guides. Single eccentric, 16inch flywheel, 3 inch bore by 6 inch stroke, with flickering govenor. Made in 1956 for driving the economisers at Bridge Mills, Hadfield. Manufactured by E Green and Son Ltd, Wakefield/Manchester.

horizontal steam engine

Working model triple expansion vertical steam engine and storage box

Working model triple expansion vertical steam engine and storage box

Robey horizontal condensing drop valve steam engine of 100 HP

Horizontal condensing drop valve steam engine

Three cylinder steam engine made by Peter Brotherhood Co.

Three cylinder steam engine made by Peter Brotherhood Co

Brass cleading ring for top of cylinder

Brass cleading ring for top of cylinder