Machrimore Mill, interior. View of gear-cupboard showing pit-wheel, wallower and great spur-wheel.
SC 342168
Description Machrimore Mill, interior. View of gear-cupboard showing pit-wheel, wallower and great spur-wheel.
Date 1962
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 342168
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 281
Scope and Content Detail of gears of grain-mill at Machrimore, Argyll and Bute The grain-mill at Machrimore was built in 1839 and is typical of 19th-century water-powered vertical mills. One of the last two working water-mills in Kintyre, it went out of service in the 1950s. Soon afterwards, most of its machinery was removed. The vertical gear (the 'pit-wheel') is attached directly to the waterwheel and turns the small cog making the 'upright shaft' rotate. The horizontal wheel (the 'great spur wheel') transfers power to the mill-stones. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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