Anson Engine Museum

Anson Engine Museum Gallery

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made by one of our volunteers3239 viewsas these were missing replacements were made copying a pattern one of the volunteers had noticed at another museum
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Geoff Baker double checks everything is ready3221 views1st public running of Largest Steam Engine in Cheshire
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Photographs of the Gardner 4NT3208 viewstaken in May 1935.

This was an experimental engine, never put into production
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A-frame steam engine3206 views
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Gardner 6LYT show model only no engine number allocated3198 views
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Series of photographs starting the 4L2 for the first time (8)3190 viewsafter its restoration work - just prior to the EHHS presentation May 2005
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Don and Graham working on the MAN Diesel3189 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition
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3168 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.
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Gardner family at the opening ceremony3166 viewsThe museum was priveleged to have so many members of the Gardner family present at the opening ceremony
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It was lifted out in one piece after cylinder were taken off3164 viewsRuston VXA in workshop prior to restoration and cleaning
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Restoration work on the MAN Diesel - cylinder head inlet and exhaust valves3163 viewsin preparation for the Diesel Exhibition.
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Walter Higgenbotham, Mayor of Cheshire East and Mayor of Poynton3159 viewsrelax and discuss the engine after its inaugral run
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