To the recently-published records of the remarkably long life of early British steam engines there falls to ho added the case of an engine which has been in active service for 135 years. This was a pumping engine made by James Watt himself, the inventor of the original condensing steam engine. It was used for pumping a dry dock on the Clyde, and was removed a short time ago because of the closing up of the particular harbour where it was at work. It will he placed n.« tnuaeum.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18197, 18 March 1921, Page 6
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89Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 18197, 18 March 1921, Page 6
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