The Waterworks Museum (3), Hereford, Herefordshire, England
 
Tangye House, Waterworks Museum, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, Great Britain
The Waterworks Museum, Hereford.

Tangye House, built in the late 19th century, is the original pumping station from Leominster. It was due to be demolished in 1990 but was rescued by the Hereford Waterworks Museum and moved here.

The building is now home to the 97 litre Tangye horizontal diesel engine and other displays.

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The Tangye Single Cylinder semi-diesel engine, Waterworks Museum, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, Great Britain
The Waterworks Museum, Hereford.

One of the exhibits inside Tangye House is this Tangye Single cylinder semi-diesel engine otherwise known as a Hot Bulb Engine.

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The Blackstone Diesel engine, Waterworks Museum, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, Great Britain
The Waterworks Museum, Hereford.

This massive Blackstone Diesel Engine, manufactured in 1939, was saved from the Royal Ordnance Munitions Factory at Rotherwas, Hereford. It drives a centrifugal pump shown in the next picture.

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The Centrifugal Pump, Waterworks Museum, Hereford, Herefordshire, England, Great Britain
The Waterworks Museum, Hereford.

This shows the multi belt drive system and a Mather & Platt two stage centrifugal pump (red) driven by the Blackstone engine seen to the left.

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