Interior View showing Tandem Compound Engine

Description Interior View showing Tandem Compound Engine

Date 19/10/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770532

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glenruthven Mills, Auchterarder, Perth & Kinross This shows the steam engine, looking towards the flywheel. It is of the tandem compound type, with a common piston rod for both high- and low-pressure cylinders. To the left is the boiler feed-pump, driven from the engine crosshead. Note the wooden strips round the cylinder. This factory continued in production, steam-driven to the end, until the mid-1980s. Thereafter it came into the ownership off a joinery firm. A trust was set up to preserve, and to run, the engine and boiler, but has ceased to exist. The engine is probably still in the building. This factory was built in 1877, and was remarkably unchanged in 1970. It was still steam-driven, though both engine and boiler were replacements for the originals. It was equipped with Anderston Foundry power looms, possibly original, and had two hand warping mills, still used in 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/61/32

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770532

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