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Bickershaw No.3 Pit Winding Engine about 1980
Bickershaw No.3 Pit Winding Engine about 1980
Photo: Graham Isherwood
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Item #: 33823
The engine as built by Walker Bros. in 1881, originally had a single winding drum but this had been rebuilt by them in 1936/37 to have two separate drums with the brakes in the middle, each of which could be connected manually by a multi-tooth clutch to the driving shaft. Normally both worked together.

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