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Detail on the machinery base - Rushton Lincoln England - of the relay pump from Tiptree Waterworks.

Rushton & Hornsby supplied this relay pump in 1914 to Tiptree Waterworks [Essex]. Capacity was about 3 million gallons of water a day, from the water treatment works at Langham with an intake from the River Stour. Treated water was pumped from the via Tiptree works to a reservoir at Danbury. It then flowed by gravity to another storage reservoir at Herongate and then into the distribution network.

Built by Simpson of Newark and installed at Waddon in 1911. Horizontal [reciprocating] engine with a large [15ft ?] flywheel. Pumping capacity was 3 million gallons of water a day, switched off on 23rd June 1983.

After the 1983 switch off, this horizontal pump was acquired by Strumpshaw Museum. It was moved here in 1983 and running again - on compressed air - the following year [1984].

Detail of the information board for the Waddon engine. [next two images >>>]