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IFOD - Internal Fire Core Collection |
| Tangye Gas Engine | ||
| Object ID | 2924 |
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| Date | 1923-01-01 | |
| Works No | 20727BR | |
| Accession No | IF:2009:23 | |
| Status | On Display | |
| Category | Engine | |
| Collection ID | Internal Fire Core Collection | |
| Made By | Tangyes Ltd | |
| Made In | Birmingham, England | |
| Description | 2 1/2hp single cylinder horizontal hot tube gas engine. Part of a direct coupled pumping set driving a three throw Tangye water pump. | |
| Location | Tangye Pump House outside Hall 1 | |
| Condition | Running | |
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| Multimedia | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvVFHLXKuHw First run of the gas engine after rebuild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA2aBHx5H2k Longer run after rebuild off site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkIcwPtaAio Running with the pump for the first time, April 2010. |
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| History | 2010-04-13 Installed in the Tangye Pump House, April 2010 |
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| Conservation/ Maintenance History | Rebuild 2009-11-23 Damaged in a fire at Milton Keynes Museum. Required a complete strip and rebuild but was found to be in basically good order. Later conversion to chain driven magneto was removed the engine converted back to hot-tube ignition. | |
| Related Objects | Milton Keynes Museum Tangye Tangye Gas Engine | |