Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum
The late Wesley Key hosted the Norfolk Steam Engine Club annual rally at Strumpshaw Hall for many years.
Wesley built up a large collection of Traction engines and a couple of fairground organs. I later years he acquired and rebuilt two substantial stationary steam engines and several smaller ones, the two large engines can be run on compressed air.
An 1893 A frame Glenfield Woolf compound beam pumping engine from Addington Waterworks in Croydon with slide valved 20" bore x 48" stroke HP cylinder, 34" bore x 72" stroke LP cylinder, Porter governor and an 18 ft diameter flywheel which ran at a working speed of 18 rpm.
This horizontal cross compound Simpson waterworks pumping engine from Waddon Well in Croydon, sister to the engine re erected at Kew Bridge pumping station.
A Robey single cylinder Uniflow No 40622, ex Cambridge University heat engines lab
A 1927 Marshall horizontal single No 82164 with Proell governor and drop valves from Wilkins jam factory at Tiptree.
A J P Hall Duplex winch of 1939
A small Marshall horizontal MP class single cylinder engine.
Various feed pumps.
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