UNIQUE PUMPING RECORD.
m . •••■ ■ i 180,000,000,000 GALLONS RAISED. Having pumped at least sixty thousand million gallons of water for Londoners, two ancient pumping engines are shortly to be put out of service * These two engines have been working at the Brookmill Road pumping station of the Metropolitan Water Board. One was erected llOjrears ago, and the other 100 years ago. They are 50 h.p. single acting pumping engines, which during the past century, with scarcely any intermission) have been raising 1,750,000 gallons of 14 Probably they are the oldest working engines in England of their kind. They are of the type which was used once in the Cornish mines. ... V
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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110UNIQUE PUMPING RECORD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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