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From: Roger Gosling
To: DAVID HARDWICK
Sent: 11 April 2000 00:11
Subject: Re: Horse Gins etc
...... Having seen the 'piece of apparatus' you refer to, I think its
unlikely to be part of a horse whim, although it is similar to parts of the
jinny ring. .....
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Thank you to all those who replied to my original message. The references
quoted are all useful and I shall investigate as many as I can. I can
suggest half a dozen or so other books with pictures of such equipment.
Sadly however, unless one of the pictures happens to be exactly the same,
this does not get any closer to identifying the equipment or dating it.
As I half suspected there does not seem to be a definitive work or "expert"
on this subject, or at least tracking one done is not easy. I will be
contacting the Wind & Watermill Section of the Society for the Protection of
Ancient Buildings shortly and will keep the list informed.
The best source of information I have so far found is "Animal-Powered
Machines - J. Kenneth Major" No 128 in the Shire Album Series ISBN 0
852637101. This has among other things a chapter entitled "Horse Engines in
the Mines", and has lots of pictures and diagrams as well as text.
For those interested in what this 'piece of apparatus' is, I'll give a
little more information (I also have a photo) It consists of a cast iron,
frame, with a gear wheel and the remains of the drive shaft. As Roger
points out (see comment above) it is not the actual Whim/Gin itself but a
part of the machinery driven by such a system.
DAVID HARDWICK
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