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Interior View showing part of Douglas and Grant Tandem Compound Engine

SC 699475

Description Interior View showing part of Douglas and Grant Tandem Compound Engine

Date 7/5/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 699475

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Gairie Works (Garie Mill), Kirriemuir, Angus This works was founded in 1868 by members of the Wilkie family to weave jute fabric for sacking and bagging. In 1969 it was still making narrow jute fabric, and had some fine heavy calenders and mangles. There were also two stationary steam engines, recently disused. This shows the larger of the stationary steam engines, built in 1916 by Douglas & Grant of Kirkcaldy. It is a tandem compound drop-valve engine, seen in this view from the flywheel end, with the low-pressure cylinder nearest to the camera, with two of its drop valve son top of the cylinder. A tandem compound engine has two cylinders end to end, the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder being used in the low pressure cylinder before being condensed into water. The air pump keeps the condenser clear of air which would stop the engine working. This engine was scrapped in about 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/27/17

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699475

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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