Paul,
Maybe 1906 isn't too late. Googling, I bumped into this pdf which relates at
the bottom of Page 2 to the installation in 1905-1906 of 'the largest and
most extensive pumping plant in the world' at the Tasmania mine,
Beaconsfield. Worth a quick glimpse perhaps because the stats are very
impressive - 30 million litres a day :-
http://www.sydney.ieaust.org.au/heritage/News/EHANewsletter18.pdf
Listers may recall this is the mine where two miners were trapped for a
fortnight earlier this year.
There are also a couple of Hathorn Davey pumps still in existence at an old
waterworks at Charters Towers in North Queensland :-
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/heritage/index.cgi?place=601081&back=1
Regards
Ian Hodkinson
Paul Stephens wrote :
"Please remember that there was at least one slow-speed horizontal engine
that might have been involved in this kind of operation although c1906
might be a little late."
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