Buxton and Thornlea Engine

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Model loosely based on an engine at Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester:

 

The base is milled from an alloy billet. Flywheel is 4 1/2″ for a sense of the size. I’m afraid the brickwork is a bit naff, in fact it’s all a bit rough –  many of the parts were rejects from my table engine, and as there was so nearly a complete engine there I thought why not?. Here’s the ‘prototype’:

Neil

Edited By Stub Mandrel on 08/10/2011 19:21:48

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

Looking very good Neil, nice job.

 

Got anything planned to make for it to drive?

 

JD

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Thanks Jeff,

 

I’ve always got my eyes open for a nice generator.

 

Neil

[Engine BuilderParticipant @enginebuilder]

Very nice engine you have there Neil, well done. Why does everyone always want to make a generator for their engine? Steam engines usualy drove machinery directly from the flywheel.

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Hi E.B.

 

Perhaps because making a factory full of spinning and weaving machines is beyond us?

 

 

Neil

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Hi Neil, there is actually a nice little over type generator in vol 1, no., 3 ME (1898), plus a few others, dynamos, batteries, and anything electrical was popular among modelers. The one that I have that would be about the size you will build is based on a Cannings electro plating generator, sorry no pics, its a bit scruffy. Ian S C

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

You’re enjoying your Volume 1, Ian!

 

I met two Cannings directors in a board room at their Birmingham HQ once (late 90s). I don’t recall all the details but I remember the building was like a town hall with cast iron decorations, wooden panelling, paintings of the founders, marble tiles – all the trappings of Victorian industrial success. A few cabinets with modern product is scattered about. I think they’ve gone now.

 

Sixteen years in Brum and a fair few big names have gone -not just Rover , Cincinnati went with hardly anyone noticing.

 

Neil

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

I believe that this is similar to one that was obtained in the 1880s for the Turbine at our museum, it was about three foot high, 100 V , 11Kw output, they came in many sizes, right from little ones about 6″ high for battery charging, and up

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