View of display area outside Gardner Room3301 viewsVarious display cabinets added to the exhibition of engines, giving insights into the Gardner family history.
made by one of our volunteers3300 viewsas these were missing replacements were made copying a pattern one of the volunteers had noticed at another museum
slumbering giant3297 views
Walter Higgenbotham, Mayor of Cheshire East and Mayor of Poynton3288 viewsrelax and discuss the engine after its inaugral run
Geoff gives a brief history of where the engine came from 3272 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
Photographs of the Gardner 4NT3268 viewstaken in May 1935.
This was an experimental engine, never put into production
Don and Graham working on the MAN Diesel3258 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition
Gardner 6LYT show model only no engine number allocated3257 views
3243 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.
Series of photographs starting the 4L2 for the first time (8)3242 viewsafter its restoration work - just prior to the EHHS presentation May 2005
It was lifted out in one piece after cylinder were taken off3232 viewsRuston VXA in workshop prior to restoration and cleaning
Restoration work on the MAN Diesel - cylinder head inlet and exhaust valves3227 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition.
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