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  2. Category:Lancashire boilers - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Lancashire boilers" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.

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  4. Flued boiler - Wikipedia

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    A shell or flued boiler is an early and relatively simple form of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine. The design marked a transitional stage in boiler development, between the early haystack boilers and the later multi-tube fire-tube boilers .

  5. Crofton Pumping Station - Wikipedia

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    A single operable Lancashire boiler provides steam to the engines. [ 2 ] Number 1 engine , built by Boulton and Watt in 1812 and rebuilt as a Cornish engine in the 1840s, is a single-acting, condensing engine with a bore of 42.25 inches (1,073 mm), a stroke of 7 feet (2,100 mm) and indicated power of 38.6 kW (51.8 hp).

  6. Claymills Pumping Station - Wikipedia

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    These are arranged in mirror image pairs, in two separate engine houses, with a central boiler house (containing five Lancashire boilers with economisers) and chimney. The engines were built in 1885 by Gimson and Company of Leicester. All the engines are similar, and the following description is limited to only one, but applicable to all.

  7. Fire-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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    The fire-tube boiler developed as the third of the four major historical types of boilers: low-pressure tank or "haystack" boilers, flued boilers with one or two large flues, fire-tube boilers with many small tubes, and high-pressure water-tube boilers. Their advantage over flued boilers with a single large flue is that the many small tubes ...

  8. British Engineerium - Wikipedia

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    The two engine rooms (seen from the rear, with the cooling pond in the foreground) flank the boiler house. This coal storage shed was added to the complex in 1875. The on-site workshop had its own steam engine. A cooling pond and leat were built behind the main buildings in 1884. Two of the four Lancashire boilers were restored in 1975–76.

  9. Vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes - Wikipedia

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    Cochran boiler. A vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes is a type of small vertical boiler, used to generate steam for small machinery. It is characterised by having many narrow fire-tubes, running horizontally. Boilers like this have been widely used on ships as either auxiliary or donkey boilers.