Tees Cottage Pumping station at Darlington has a gas producer plant in
situ. It's no longer in use as when last used about 1955 they managed to
explode part of it. The twin cylinder gas engine can now be seen running
on natural gas.
See their website.
Simon.
On 27/10/2017 14:53, margaret and michael shaw wrote:
> Thanks for the responses. I am trying to identify equipment by looking the
> bases left, currently a small scale gas production plant (it may have been
> suction or pressured) and the gas engine it powered. Gas plants rarely
> survive, lots of gas engines do and have photographs on-line but most are
> smaller machines not the 100+ h.p. with twin c2m flywheels as looks to have
> been on the base at Cothercott Mill in Shropshire. Whilst on the subject
> if anyone knows of such gas production plant surviving in its place of use
> I would be very interested to know, Iona marble quarry is the only one I am
> aware of to date, I am also trying establish whether 1.5 x 3m rectangular
> gasometers would have been installed in the 1920s.
> Mike Shaw
>
> On 27 October 2017 at 12:26, Roland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Are you perhaps seeking to establish what machine or engine might have
>> occupied a base? If so does the context offer any clues that might narrow
>> the field a little?
>>
>> Roland Craven
>> Nr. Exeter UK
>>
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>> On 26/10/2017 19:28, margaret and michael shaw wrote:
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>>> I could use a website which has good coverage of machine and engine bases,
>>> does anyone know of such.
>>> Mike Shaw
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