Interior View showing Robey cross-compound engine
SC 770528
Description Interior View showing Robey cross-compound engine
Date 19/10/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770528
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Springbank Carding and Spinning Mill, Dunblane, Stirling This shows the steam engine, of the cross-compound type, built in 1927 by Robey of Lincoln, looking across the engine to the low-pressure cylinder, in the centre. The edge of the flywheel is on the right. The pulley to the left is being driven by the water turbine. The mills, which both spun and wove, continued in operation into the 1980s. The two larger blocks of building were then converted into flats, and new houses built on the site of demolished sections of the complex. The engine was scrapped. This complex was founded in 1851, and enlarged in 1884. It was originally powered by water from the River Allan, and was in 1970 still using Allan water to drive a Gilkes turbine which powered the mill. There was, however, a steam engine retained as a standby. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/61/26
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