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At 11:38 03/02/06, Paul Stephens wrote: >Can anyone tell me about the Sims combined cylinders engine that was >once installed at Gourt Mine, Devon please? Paul, See the contribution, on steam power applied to mining, in The Industrial Archaeology of Exmoor, ed. M. Atkinson, (Tiverton: Exmoor Books, 1997). Where there is a description of the Gourt engine and that at Knap Down, Combe Martin, both of which were Sims combines. Peter ______________________________________________ Dr Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, nr. Rosebush, Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE. Tel. +44 (0)1437 532578; Fax. +44 (0)1437 532921; Mobile +44 (0)7831 427599 Hon. University Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre for South Western Historical Studies), University of Exeter E-mail: [log in to unmask] Co-owner - mining-history e-mail discussion list. See http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/mining-history/ for details. Mining History Pages - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~pfclaugh/mhinf/ _____________________________________________