Bath Industrial Museum.

 

 

A reconstructed workshop at the museum.

 

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Bath Industrial Museum is housed in an eighteenth century Real Tennis Court but is based on the collections from the old established Bath ironmongers, general engineers and mineral water manufacturers J B Bowler & Sons Ltd.

The only item relating to Stationary Steam is a small horizontal engine that drove the workshop machinery. The mineral water machinery itself was powered by an unusual six stroke gas engine designed and built by Samuel Griffin, a local engineer who is also credited with the steam engine. The steam engine is a fairly conventional single cylinder horizontal engine with the slide valve mounted on top of the cylinder and driven by a crank from the eccentric rod.

 

View from the cylinder end  The cranks transmitting the eccentric rod drive to the valve chest can be clearly seen. The assymetric positioning of the valve chest is unusual.  The wrought iron flywheel spokes are cast into the rim and hub .

The gas engine that powered the mineral water factory has also been preserved.

The rack of diestocks implies a lot of heavy duty threadcutting at the works.

 

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