Anson Engine Museum

Anson Engine Museum Gallery

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Work also required to make the new Rattling Monster Exhibition area1460 views
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Easter surprise1460 viewssnow greeted everyone on Easter Sunday
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National driving the workshop1460 viewsType M, S/No 37708, built 1929, 10 HP, Towns gas with high-tension ignition. Used in Barnsley Technical College as a teaching engine. It now runs the next display - typical workshop machinery being run by the engine – a drill, a lathe and a shaper.
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Engines need to be moved out off storage area to make room for new exhibition1459 views
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Geoff with Mathew Robson - this gentleman used to run the engine during it's working life1459 viewsphoto taken outside our marquee at the 1000 Engine Rally, Chelford
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Roof for steam engine building and new building are at 90 degrees to each other1458 views
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Back of lean to building, late summer 20031458 views
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1000 Engine Rally 2007 – inside our stall1458 viewsvisitor intrigued by the crated Blackstone engine.

Blackstone Type JPI, HP 16, RPM 800, Engine Number JPL 83L 301. It had been sent to the African Water Technology Exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya in 1982 where it was on Stand No 109 driving a water pump. It was recently found (still crated) having been returned from the Exhibition to the Mirrlees factory in 1982. It had lain forgotten about for 25 years!
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Junkers crank shaft arrangement1457 viewsclose up shot
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Members of the Heywood Society1456 views
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Shot 41454 viewsfor the first time at the museum, June 2008.

It hadn't been run since the 1970's
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Geoff shows visitors around the Gardner engines1453 viewsand runs several of them
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