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Pinchbeck Engine
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The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England. Until it was shut down in 1952, the engine
The engine house
The engine house
The engine frame and flywheel
The engine frame and flywheel
Scoop wheel
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A scoop wheel or scoopwheel is a pump, usually used for land drainage.
Pinchbeck Engine
…inches (1.42 m) stroke. The flywheel is 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m) in diameter. The engine ran at up to 30 rpm. The engine is gear-coupled to a single scoop wheel in an adjacent compartment. There are 40 paddles around the circumference of the 22-foot (6.71 m) wheel, which could lift a maximum of 7,500 imperial…
Rim driven Scoop wheel of the Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire
Rim driven Scoop wheel of the Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire
Scoop wheel of a Dutch mill
Scoop wheel of a Dutch mill
Shaft driven Scoop wheel of the Dogdyke Engine, Lincolnshire
Shaft driven Scoop wheel of the Dogdyke Engine, Lincolnshire