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Original Articles

Crofton Engine Trials 1949 and 1998 — a Postscript

Pages 139-146 | Published online: 31 Jan 2014

REFERENCES

  • T. Bower, C.I. Broom, J.R. Calvert and T. S. Garrett, 'Crofton Pumping Station: Performance Trials September 1949 and April 1998', Trans. Newcomen Soc., vol. 71 (2000), pp. 49–77
  • These include a description of the machinery of the SS Adriatic (date approximately 1933, when N.G. Calvert, as an undergraduate, sailed on her as a supernumerary engineer for a voyage to West Africa), and of Clarence Dock power station in Liverpool. There are also notes of a number of lectures given at the meeting of the British Association in Blackpool in September 1936 (when he would have been a research student at Liverpool University).
  • J.H. (Jack) Trounson was the Hon. Curator of the Cornish Engine Preservation Society and associated with the Trevithick Society. The reference is presumably to a lecture, entitled 'The Cornish Engine' which he gave to the Western Branch of the IMechE on 19 April 1950.
  • Mr G.H. Maslin was D&IWE District Inspector at Devizes.
  • N.G. Calvert, 'Trials on Pumping Engines at Crofton', The Engineer, vol. CLXXXIII (1949), pp. 468–69
  • Anon., 'Indicating Old Steam Engines', The Engineer, vol. CLXXXIII (1949), p. 433.
  • Anon., 'The Oldest Working Beam Engines', Engineering, vol. 168 (1949), p. 369.
  • P. Morgan, 'Three Days with Watt', The Allen Magazine, January 1950, p. 30.
  • Garackes Manual of Electrical Undertakings, 1950-51.
  • R. Balchin, T. Bower, and T. Garrett, 'Crofton Beam Engine Tests, Main Report, Group Design Project 1997/8 ', Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Southampton (Unpublished).
  • Letter, Arthur Stowers of the Newcomen Society to J.T. Evans, Divisional Engineer of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive in Gloucester, 9 Dec 1949, British Waterways Archive, BWA1552.

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