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Each of HMS Belfast's four 20,000 horsepower turbines has four stages -... (more)

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This is a set of cross compound geared steam turbines set up for display at the... (more)

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Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)

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This item is on the storage racks but is well seen from the gallery opposite,... (more)

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This is a very important exhibit being one of the low pressure turbines from the... (more)

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A small Parsons steam turbine for educational purposes. It drives the generator... (more)

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Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)

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This is Parsons radial flow 120 kW turbine built for Cambridge Power Station in... (more)

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HMS Plymouth is a Falklands War veteran that was apparently sold for scrap in... (more)

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This was the former cross channel ferry SS Dover that had been used as a... (more)

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This is Parsons radial flow 120 kW turbine built for Cambridge Power Station in... (more)

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A pair of 1933 Fraser & Chalmers steam turbines with reduction gearing to a... (more)

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This was the former cross channel ferry SS Dover that had been used as a... (more)

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This was the former cross channel ferry SS Dover that had been used as a... (more)

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Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)

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This was the former cross channel ferry SS Dover that had been used as a... (more)

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Preserved in the museum grounds is this important example of a class of turbine... (more)

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This is a Metropolitan Vickers condensing steam turbine driving a dynamo (direct... (more)

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This is now a rare (almost certainly unique) bit of machinery. A W H Allen steam... (more)

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Charles Algernon Parsons took out his patent for the axial flow reaction steam... (more)

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A 62' high monster built in 1929 by Worthington-Simpson of Newark. In the... (more)

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A slightly damaged rotor from one of 8 steam turbine pumping sets formerly at... (more)

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This is part of one of the four 20,000 horsepower steam turbines that drove HMS... (more)

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This was the former cross channel ferry SS Dover that had been used as a... (more)

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A 30 MW Ljungstrom steam turbine from Doncaster Power Station - opened 1954,... (more)

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Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)

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Belliss and Morcom steam turbine driving a centrifugal pump via a David Brown... (more)

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Belliss and Morcom steam turbine driving a centrifugal pump via a David Brown... (more)

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These are engines Nos. 8 and 9 and were installed after the two large... (more)

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This is the No. 9 pumping set opened up for display. It is a Fraser &... (more)

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This large hospital complex has now been demolished and replaced by Brockhall... (more)

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This power station was then supplying a considerable amount of power to the... (more)

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This is what 6000 shaft horsepower of steam turbine looks like. These comprise... (more)

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This former textile mill is now awaiting redevelopment. The power house is a... (more)

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Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)

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I believe this guano encrusted plant is now sadly a memory. It was a fascinating... (more)

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In 1983 Hampton was converting from steam turbine power to all electric drives... (more)

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Greenwood & Batley of Leeds impulse steam turbine driving a generator via a... (more)

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This part of the factory is long gone and the position is approximate to within... (more)

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This shows the steam end of the two Belliss & Morcom turboalternators. In... (more)

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This is a Swiss-built Brown Boveri turbine believed to date from 1912 and... (more)

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This is a Swiss-built Brown Boveri turbine believed to date from 1912 and... (more)

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This is a sizeable single casing turbine arranged for display with the top cover... (more)

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This site is best known for its two enormous 62' tall triple expansion... (more)

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This long since demolished colliery contained a powerhouse with a steam driven... (more)

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This is probably the right grid square. Oil refineries are big, even a little... (more)

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This is an 1895 8kW double axial flow C A Parsons turbine used at Holeyn Hall... (more)

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Displayed in the former valve house. This is a Greenwood & Batley single... (more)

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This little gem has been scrapped and its room is part of an apartment now. The... (more)

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This little gem has been scrapped and its room is part of an apartment now.... (more)

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