Friday, 7 June 2019

Air power: Steam power

Photographs taken at the Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford, Stockport, and at the Bolton Steam Museum, Mornington Road, Bolton.


Vulcan cockpit

Lancaster nose

Canberra nose

Anson nose

Anson cockpit

Model Lancaster

Replica of an early Avro experimental plane

Lancaster nose

Avro Type-F


Canberra nose

Vulcan bomber















John Musgrave barring engine 1888

Robeys cross-compound engine 1935


George Saxon barring engine 1909

Model of Newcomen engine

John Musgrave non-dead-centre engine 1893


Twin beam engine 1840

Lab-type inverted vertical engine

Single-cylinder horizontal engine

Twin beam engine 1840


Jan Musgrave non-dead-centre engine 1893


Robeys horizontal cross-compound engine 1935

Vertical cross-compound engine c1800

Some volunteers at work

Vertical cross-compound engine c1800

Vertical inverted cross-compound engine 1915


McNaught tandem-compound engine 1902

'McNaughted' beam engine 1870






McNaught tandem-compound engine 192



Robey uniflow engine 1926

Hick Hargreaves barring engine

McNaught tandem-compound engine 1902

Scott & Hodgson inverted vertical-compound engine 1915

Samuel Walker fire-pump engine

Scott & Hodgson inverted vertical-compound engine 1915



Hick Hargreaves Lancashire boiler (front)




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