UNIQUE PUMPING RECORD
Having pumped at least sixty thousand million gallons of water for Londoners, two ancient pumping engines are shortly to bo put out of Borneo. These two engines have been working at the Brookmill road pumping station of the Metro, politan Water . Board. Ono was erected 110 years ago, and tho other 100 years ago. They are 60 h.p. single acting pumping engines, which during the past century, with scarcely any intermission, have been raising 1,750,000 gallons of water a day. Probably they are the oldest working engines in England of their kind. They arc of the type which was used once in tho Cornish mines.
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Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 14
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108UNIQUE PUMPING RECORD Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 14
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