Pumphouse : Beam engine

Object detail

Accession number

03-889

Description

Photograph of a photograph or from a negative. Surrounded by wide black borders is the image of a small boy holding rail and looking up at a wheel. The giant 16 ton flywheel in MOTAT's pumphouse building has a 64 feet circumference and is 20 feet 6 inches in diameter. Above the image is 298 KODAK Safety film P.61-1. The negative of this image is accessioned as 07/041/001.

Marks

The giant 16 Ton Flywheel in the Museums pumphouse building. 64 ft in circumference & 20ft 6 in. in diameter. Hand-written

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper/Photographic

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 20 x 14 cm.

Credit Line

Pumphouse : Beam engine, 03-889. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Production place

Western Springs
Auckland City
Auckland District
Auckland
New Zealand

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Classification

Photograph Print, Photographic Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Graphic Documents

Subject

Steam-engines Pumping machinery Pumphouse (MOTAT, Auckland, N.Z.) Woolf double compound beam engine

Collection type

Institutional Archives Walsh Memorial Library

Subject auto tags

Automotive tire Black Motor vehicle Style Black-and-white Rim Engineering Gas Automotive wheel system Machine

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