TL5172 : Elderly diesel

near to Stretham, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain

Elderly diesel
Elderly diesel
This is a Mirrlees 4 cylinder air blast diesel engine from the 1920s and drove a centrifugal drainage pump. All modern diesels are solid injection but earlier versions used air at about 1000 psi to blast fuel into the cylinder through a pulveriser that broke the spray in to very fine droplets. The device closest to the camera is the blast air compressor.
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1989
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Chris Allen   (find more nearby)
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Date Taken
Saturday, 17 June, 1989   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 6 December, 2007
Category
Pumping station   (more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 516 729 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:20.0368N 0:13.4647E
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