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Steam Museum Display
No 1 ‘THE INVINCIBLE STEAM TRACTOR’
- First built 1970.
- ‘the invincible’ has had 5 incarnations in it’s life,
- And is now rebuilt as no 3b.
- Vertical fire tube boiler of 10 hp
- Providing steam @ 120 psi to the main engine
- Which is a duplex high pressure type of 9 nominal horsepower and 100 brake horsepower.
- Torque 1150 foot lbs at the engine,
- 36,800 ft lbs at the wheels.
- Weight in running order 5 tonnes.
- Auxilliary winch engine, front mounted, has 30m of 9mm cable for snigging and salvage purposes
No 2 FERRIER & DICKINSON
- Duplex first motion steam winch,
- 3” x 4” bore and stroke used for unloading the ash from the stoke hold of an R.W. Miller collier ‘SS Ayrfield’.
- These ships were known as a 60 miler, for they plied their trade carrying coal from Newcastle to Sydney.
- Seen here re-rigged with rope worked blocks.
No 3 DRYSDALE
High speed steam engine of 3” bore x 3” stroke is close coupled to an all bronze 5” x 5” (125 x 125mm) centri-fugal pump for pumping salt water through a steam ship condensor. Manufactured 1943
No 4 WORTHINGTON & SIMPSON
Direct acting steam powered water pump having steam cylinders of 4 ½” x 4” and water cylinders of 2 ¾” x 4” trimmed in bronze for salt water pumping aboard a steam ship.
No 5 MARINE STEAM ENGINE
Twin cylinder vertical former marine steam engine. Converted stationary use with the fitment of a flywheel and governor. Manufacturer unknown, circa 1890 – 1900
No 6 SISSONS ENGINE
- A high speed engine (450 rpm) 7” x 3 ½” bore and stroke
- Built 1946 operating pressure 90 psi
- Maximum horsepower 12
- Typical use power generation.
No 7 STEAM TURBINE
Steam turbine impulse type of one kilowat capacity at 32 volts (d.c.) used for lighting on main line steam locomotives.
Manufactured by Stones’, London England.
NEW YORK SAFETY STEAM POWER CO. ‘BOTTLE ENGINE’
- Circa 1870
- This engine spent its’ life in the cellar of a
- Chicago building as a stand by, fire pump drive.
- The engine has seen little use and is un-restored.
- The pump was driven by a belt on the fly wheel.
- Note the paint is hardly worn off!
No 8 DAVEY PAXMAN STEAM PORTABLE ENGINE
- Built 1912 Colchester, England.
- This is a very rare example of an engine that has been kept in it’s original working clothes and is in perfect working condition.
- Specifications
- Locomotive type boiler working at 90 psi providing steam to the overtype single cylinder engine of 7” x 10” bore and stroke operating at 155 rpm.
- This engine spent it’s early life in the Blayney district of new south wales driving a shearing plant, later it was purchased for use in steaming chaff at hoadley’s mill then on into preservation.
- The Davey Paxman is set up here driving an alternator that was manufactured circa 1908 by general electric, this alternator that runs @ 1500 rpm and is capable of delivering 20 kilowatts of power @ 240/415 volts and 34.8 amps.
- When operational the power developed is used to provide lighting for the museum.
Boiler House
No 9 VERTICAL BOILER
- Manufactured by Grantham of England, in early 1916
- These boilers were known as donkey boilers and are of a very simple and robust construction, with two large water tubes above the fire to assist in the circulation of the water for steam raising.
- Working pressure - 90 psi or 612 kpa
- Working temperature - 356 degrees for 165 degrees c
- Horsepower @ 10 sq ft to the horse power) = 5
- Feedwater ph 9 – 11
No 10 WORTHINGTON SIMPSON DUPLEX BOILER
Feed pump 3” x 2” x 3” seen here drawing hot, treated boiler feed water from the above hotwell
Manufactured 1966
No 11 HOTWELL AND MAKE UP TANK
Hotwell and make up tank, the large tank suspended from the roof contains treated water for boiler feed. The tank is fitted with a false bottom which carries the waste steam through a labyrinth so as to impart heat to the water prior to being fed into the boiler.
No 12 WEIR TYPE SIMPLEX STEAM PUMP
- Having a bore and stroke of 5” x 7” steam side,
- 7” x 3 ½”water side.
- Being used in the boiler house to circulate the treated water in the hotwell.
- Manufactured G.J. Weir, Cathcart, Scotland.
No 13 TANGYE SIMPLEX
- Having a bore and stroke of 4” x 5” (103 x 127mm)
- Vertical steam engine of 2 nominal horsepower
- Manufactured by Tangyes’ of Birmingham
- Circa 1880
No 14 BILLABONG SIMPLEX PISTON PUMP
- 4” x 5” bore and stroke, designed for delivering water against a high head relative to its’
- Suction port. capacity @ 60 rpm
- Manufactured in Queensland
No 15 RIVERSIDE CENTRIFUGAL PUMP
- 3” (75mm) inlet 2” x 50mm outlet
- Designed for shifting water against a low head relative to its’ suction port.
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