Long Working Steam Engine
A steam pumping engine which was set in motion in Cornish'mine during the Crimean War, and has worked steadily on through the Boer War, the Great War, and all the little wars in between, is still helping to produce tin and wolfran down West. Moreover, it competes successfully with the modern electrically driven engines. The remarkable engine has worked day and night for 90 years. It was designed and erected by an engineer whose name is almost forgotten, Sam Grose, born of Cornish parents at Nether Stowey in Somerset a century and a half ago. Other creations of his also attained a high standard of efficiency. If Sam were alive today how proud he would feel that his old engine is still doing a grand job of work AlftlllliiliNillNl
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 8
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133Long Working Steam Engine Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 8
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