- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5025483
- Also known as:
- Old Cheddar's Lane pumping station
- Instance of:
- local museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 697
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5025483/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Industry and Technology
The core of the collections is the original pumping station machinery and equipment, which includes two important Hathorn Davey pumping engines, a Mumford vertical donkey engine and two Worthington Simpson engines used to supply water to the boilers, a Crompton Parkinson 2kw lighting generator powered by a Bumpstead and Chandler 4hp steam engine, two 94hp National gas engines installed in 1909, and a Gwynne’s centrifugal pump installed in 1937 and powered by a Crompton Parkinson 114hp electric motor. Additional exhibits include a Mid 19th century mill engine built by J I Headly of Cambridge for Thomas Evans Leatherworks, Sawston; a collection of wireless sets made by Pye of Cambridge; a collection of domestic and scientific electrical equipment made by the Cambridge Instrument Company; a telephone switchboard in the 1950’s and an Ericcson telephone set from 1923 retrieved from a whaling station in the Falklands; a Newmark analogue computer from 1960, used to solve differential equations; and a collection of letterpress printing equipment from early hand operated presses to power machinery.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC