It certainly is an amazing exercise and shows what can be achieved by
concern for an historic structure from 1903; presumably the fact that it was
located on an active gold mine solved the financial problems. In Britain we
have just struggled to save the Bryngwyn engine house, Caerphilly, South
Wales, of 1893 without anything like the effort required in New Zealand.
Describing the Martha Mine engine as being a horizontal Cornish is
distinctly dubious, in fact the description on the website, dating from
1903, does not actually describe it as Cornish. From the picture of the
model however it looks as if it may well have been an inverted Cornish
engine, just as the engine was originally at Bryngwyn.
Order books and other records of Hathorn Davey & Co. are preserved in West
Yorkshire Archives and would give some detail of the original order and
specification.
Well done, Waihi Gold!
Simon.
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Subject: Martha Mine, New Zealand
> Listers may be interested in Waihi Gold's efforts to relocate the old
Martha Mine pumping engine house at their gold mining operation at Waihi on
the North Island of NZ.
>
> It's quite an amazing combined engineering and heritage exercise and
hasn't been overly publicised.
>
> Go to : http://www.marthamine.co.nz/ and click on the link under the
phtographs.
>
> Regards
> Ian Hodkinson
>
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