Mike,
I'm sure that I've come across 'pendulum' in the context of the surface
pitwork of a pumping engine.
The conducting ropes were guides for the cage.
Working barrel - presumably a pump cylinder - if Whittakers had a
foundary they could have cast one.
Mike
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