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Old 18-04-2017, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by janwhin View Post
That's a great set of photographs, Coquet, but does your daughter ever get tired of providing the scale!

The engine mounts look promising and the gin is great. I assume we're missing some horses to turn the thing?
Oh yes she is fed up with it!

Cornish plunger pump by Evans of Wolverhampton, with corresponding page from my copy of 'Mine Drainage' by Stephen Mitchell, 1899, showing a very similar Evans pump. [Daughter thinks I've lost my mind, the things I get excited about ]







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