Collection Database

Object ID 1115356
Object Name Horizontal Duplex Steam Pump
Object Date 1951-01-01
Works Number 5087642
Location Unknown
Category Steam Machinery
Acquired 2022-10-17
Status Not on display
Description

Size: 3" steam cylinders, 2" pumping cylinders with 3" stroke
Type: General Service A

This pump was acquired in October 2007 and believed to have been used at a Nursery and Mushroom farm in Hockley, Essex. It has been out of use for years and was seized solid.

The pump has the standard one piece casting unlike the other 3x2x3 pump in the collection. It was build for water duties as it is fitted with bronze rods and screw glands. 

Manufacturer Worthington Simpson Ltd
Manufactured Newark, England
Condition Good
Core Yes
Accession No IF:2022:94
Collection Id Internal Fire Core Collection
Shortman NULL
Image NULL