Walter Higgenbotham, Mayor of Cheshire East and Mayor of Poynton3338 viewsrelax and discuss the engine after its inaugral run
View of display area outside Gardner Room3329 viewsVarious display cabinets added to the exhibition of engines, giving insights into the Gardner family history.
Geoff gives a brief history of where the engine came from 3328 viewsStott Engine facts:
• Built by SS Stott in 1903
• Horizontal cross compound engine
• Cylinders 12.5 inches and 22 inches by three inches
• Flywheel 10 foot in diameter with a weight of 10 tons
• HP Corliss Valves, LP Slide Valves
• Indicated horsepower 200-250hp
made by one of our volunteers3326 viewsas these were missing replacements were made copying a pattern one of the volunteers had noticed at another museum
slumbering giant3318 views
Photographs of the Gardner 4NT3294 viewstaken in May 1935.
This was an experimental engine, never put into production
Gardner 6LYT show model only no engine number allocated3287 views
Don and Graham working on the MAN Diesel3281 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition
Series of photographs starting the 4L2 for the first time (8)3270 viewsafter its restoration work - just prior to the EHHS presentation May 2005
3264 viewsDuring 1906, the Admiralty specification required lightweight diesel engines for the propulsion of pinnaces and Mirrlees designed a four cylinder unit of 120 BHP at 400 r.p.m. These engines had bed plates of aluminium and columns of manganese bronze. The piston diameter was 9 and three quarter inches with a stroke of 12 inches.
It was lifted out in one piece after cylinder were taken off3256 viewsRuston VXA in workshop prior to restoration and cleaning
Restoration work on the MAN Diesel - cylinder head inlet and exhaust valves3253 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition.
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