Engine and Machines on Display

The treasure of the collection.
The Waterworks Museum - Hereford houses the oldest working triple-expansion steam pumping engine in the UK. It stands two-floors high and is quite awesome in operation. This engine was capable of pumping one million gallons per day and supplied Hereford with water from 1895 onwards, being last used for real in 1952. Its steam plant, a Lancashire boiler, remains in good condition.
Museum collection (main items):
Click on an item below to go to the photo-gallery of engines and equipment on display at the Musem

1805
1850
1851
1878
1880
1880s
1888
1889
1890s
1890s
1890s
1890
1895
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1905
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1909
1911
1912
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1917
1920s
1920s
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1927
1929
1930s
1930s
1930s
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1932
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1935
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1950
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1962
1962
1972
1974
1980s

Horse-drawn fire engine
Water-level instrumentation (various)
Simpson beam engine with James Watt's refinements
Thorneycroft reversing two-cylinder steam engine
Hayward-Tyler 'Rider' type 1hp hot-air engine
Gilbert, Gilkes & Gordon double-vortex turbine
Joseph Evans double-acting reciprocating pumps
Warner hydraulic ram (plus other rams and hydrostat)
Easton, Anderson & Goolden horizontal turbine and triple throw pumps
Wilson-Hartnell dynamo
Tangye single-cylinder horizontal steam engine (static exhibit)
Hayward-Tyler "Rider" type 1/2hp hot air engine
Lancashire boiler
Worth-McKenzie triple expansion steam engine
Campbell gas engine with hot-tube ignition
Glenfield & Kennedy Peebles-type sand washer
Glenfield & Kennedy double-acting reciprocating pump
Worth McKenzie twin duplex steam engine
Overshot waterwheel made by the Eagle Foundry of Aberystwyth
Kent venturi water flow meter and recorder
Hindley "Alcazar" single-cylinder vertical steam engine
National Gas producer-gas engine
National Gas producer-gas plant
Perkins double-helical gear reduction unit and clutch
Pelton wheel
Fire Hydrant
Allen single-cylinder steam engine
Joseph Evans reciprocating pump
Worthington Simpson steam-driven pumps
Mather & Platt single-stage centrifugal pump
Kent steam flow-meter and recorder
Broby water softener
Tangye 2-cylinder horizontal pump
Worthington Simpson boiler feed pump
Blake compound hydraulic ram
"Climax-type" wind-powered pump
Worthington Simpson steam-driven pumpd
Mather & Platt single-stage centrifugal pump
Tangye triple-throw vertical pump
Paterson Chloronome-type chlorinator
Tangye 97-litre single-cylinder horizontal diesel engine and triple-throw pumps
Tangye single-cylinder semi-diesel donkey engine
Allen twin-cylinder vertical diesel engine, David Brown gearbox & borehole pump
Tangye 3-throw horizontal pump
Harland pump set: vertical electric motor and borehole pump
Gilbert, Gilkes & Gordon Francis-type turbine
Warner triple pumps
Joseph Evans single-cylinder double-acting open-crank pump
Stirrup pumps
Blackstone EPV5 5-cylinder diesel engine
Mather & Platt Medivan 2-stage centrifugal pump
Blackstone single-cylinder diesel donkey engine
Wallace & Tiernan bell-jar chlorinator
Coventry Climax fire tender
Lister D single-cylinder petrol engine
Lister CD single-cylinder diesel engine
Crompton-Parkinson motor and Pulsometer spindle-driven centrifugal pump
Tangye pump set: Pelapone 4-cylinder diesel engine and centrifugal pump
Tangye pump set: Electric Construction Co motor and centrifugal pump
Lister diesel locomotive and trucks working on 2 foot gauge track.
Parkinson-Cowan 'Teletalk' water-level annunciator
Hartley & Sugden package boiler
Pleuger centrifugal borehole pump and motor
Hayward-Tyler centrifugal borehole pumps and motors

Undated Items in Exhibition
Bamford single-cy;inder petrol engine
Ruston Hornsby single-cylinder petrol engine
Lister D single-cylinder petrol engines (various)
Water-level instrumentation from 1850s to 1960s
Flow meters and integrating flow meters and recorders (various)
Climax pump
Lister H2 pump
Stuart-turner water-feed pump
Forge hearth and leather bellows
Hayward-Tyler centrifugal borehole pumps and motors
Water treatment equipment from Victorian period to 1920s
Wooden water pipes from many eras

Museum buildings
1856 Museum main bulding; Hereford's Victorian water-pumping station - 1865 - 1906
1865 Tangye House; ex-Leominster's water-pumping station
2006 Easthall Visitor Centre and Southall Engine Gallery
2007 Rotherwas Engine House
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