Built to raise water for the Kennet and Avon Canal in 1807 the Crofton Pumping station originally contained a Bolton and Watt Steam Engine, and a second one was installed in 1812. In 1846 the original engine was replaced by a Sims Combined Cylinder Engine constructed by Harvey of Hayle.

The Harvey Engine is a single acting condensing engine with a bore of 42 inches, a stroke of 7 feet 8 inches. Its 42 horsepower (30 kilowatts) drives a 30 inch pump capable of lifting around a tonne of water per stroke at a rate of 10 strokes per minute.

Both the remaining Bolton and Watt and the Harvey's engine are in working condition and are steamed on a regular basis.

Crofton Beam Engines

For more information please see

www.croftonbeamengines.org/intro.html

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Kew Bridge Museum, Brentford, Nr London

There are three Hayle-built Engines a Kew.

90" Engine

This was built in 1846 by Sandys, Carne & Vivian of Copperhouse Foundry, Hayle, Cornwall and was the first engine built in Cornwall specially for a waterworks. It was capable of pumping over 6m gallons of water per day. The engine can be seen in steam most weekends March-December

100" Engine

The 100" engine was built by Harvey's in 1869 and was originally synchronised with the 90" engine so that they pumped on alternate strokes. It was capable of pumping over 7m gallons per day. The engine is in the process of restoration.

Bull Engine

Named after the Cornish inventor Edward Bull, a friend of Trevithick. The Bull engine at Kew Bridge was built by Harvey's of Hayle in 1856. The clever design  has the cylinder inverted over the pump and dispenses with the main beam, making it about 1/2 the size of a standard beam engine. Unfortunately the design also made the engine more difficult to operate and maintain and it is thought that it was used mainly as a 'back-up' for the other engines. Its 70" cylinder was capable of pumping around 3.5m Gallons per day. The engine is currently undergoing restoration.

Kew Bridge Museum

Three Hayle Engines (and others)

For more information please see

http://www.kbsm.org/engines

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Levant, Nr Pendeen, Cornwall

The Winding Engine was built by Harvey's of Hayle  in 1840 and was in use for almost 100 years until the mine closed in 1935.

It was the first engine to be preserved by the Trevithick Society. It is often steamed during the summer months.

For more information please see

http://www.bakerlite.co.uk/the_levant_engine.htm

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Levant Tin Mine)

East Pool, Robinsons Shaft

The engine built by Sandys, Vivian & Co., Copperhouse, Hayle is a Cornish beam pumping engine.

East Pool, Taylors Shaft

The Harvey's of Hayle Cornish beam pumping engine has been preserved. The engine can be seen operating but under electric/compressed air power rather than steam.

For more information please see

http://www.trevithicktrust.com/cornmnen.htm

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East Pool

Parkandillick Clay Works, St Dennis

A preserved beam engine built by Sandys, Vivian & Co., Copperhouse, Hayle.

The engine was restored in 1970 but is now driven by compressed air rather than steam

Parkandillick Engine House

The Science Museum, Wrughton Nr Swindon

The engine which has come to be known as the ‘Carpalla’ Engine was originally built at Harvey’s of Hayle in 1863, to work at Wheal Hartley, Gwinear. It is a 40in cylinder 9 ft stroke equal beam engine and is a typical example of a smaller beam engine, embossed with Harvey & Co on the beam and also with the name of W Bennetts, the design engineer.

In common with many Cornish beam engines the ‘Carpalla’ was moved many times to various Cornish industrial operations. Thus, from Gwinear the engine was moved first to a silver lead mine at Perrannzabuloe and thence to West Polbreen, St Agnes in 1886-7, where it worked for two years, remaining in its engine house for a further 6 years before going to West Wheal Kitty Mine nearby where it worked until1913.

The engine then was moved to and used as a pump engine at the Carpalla clay works, near St Austell, first for a mineral company and then for a paper manufacturer, working until 1944 when after a ground collapse, electric pumps took over. The engine remained in its house until in 1953 when it came into the hands of an English China Clay company who were eventually superseded by Imerys. The Carpalla is now at the Science Museum at Wroughton near Swindon in Wiltshire where it is awaiting restoration. It is not on public display.

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Prestonpans, Lothian, Scotland

The preserved engine at Prestonpans was manufactured by Harvey's of Hayle in 1874. The Beam is 33 ft. long and the cylinder is 70" diameter x 12'0" stroke.

Pumping capacity was 650 gallons of water per minute. Although not in a working condition the engine  and engine house has been restored and has been designated  as an Industrial Monument and forms the centre-piece of a Historical Site for the Mining Industry.

For more information please see

http://www.prestoungrange.org/prestonpans

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PrestonpansEngine House

The museum has three engines in its list of attractions including a 1851 Harvey's Single column beam engine that was rescued from the Ely waterworks at Cardiff

For more information please see

http://www.fcrammond.clara.net/hereford.htm

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The Science Museum, London

The Science Museum has a Harvey's Single Cylinder Vertical Oscillating Engine.

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Cruquius, Nr Haarlem, Netherlands

The main attraction is the large Harvey-built Cruquius engine, the steam engine with the cylinder with the largest diameter in the world, almost 3.5 m or 144".

The enormous engine drove no less than eleven pumps arranges in a circle around the engine itself and was able to lift 120 tonnes of water on each stroke.

The Cruquius engine was restored. June 4th 2002, after more than 20 years of hard work, the engine was operated officially for the first time by His Royal Highness prince Willem Alexander of The Netherlands and is steamed on a regular basis.

For more information please see

http://www.museumdecruquius.nl/en/index.html

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Cruquius Engine, Netherlands