Front of museum gets a fresh coat of paint2059 viewsWorking Weekend 23/24 March 2007
Over 35 people turned up to help give the museum a spring clean and a fresh coat of paint ready for the Easter opening of the season (5 votes)
Mike and Charles in workshop restoring engines2423 views (5 votes)
Next stage of the dismantling at the college4007 viewsPhotograph courtesy of Maurice Clyde taken at South Shields college w/c 16th Oct 2006 (13 votes)
Jack explains to visitors2330 views (6 votes)
Examples of fuel injection equipment for demonstration purposes2861 viewsin background you can see the Hornsby-Ackroyd Oil Engine built in 1896 (3 votes)
Fowler Beam Engine1806 viewsnot quite so new but the display area is now finished around it. This engine is on loan from the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. (3 votes)
Crane unloads the Water Brake weighing 17 tons3498 views (3 votes)
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3190 viewsDuring 1906, the Admiralty specification required lightweight diesel engines for the propulsion of pinnaces and Mirrlees designed a four cylinder unit of 120 BHP at 400 r.p.m. These engines had bed plates of aluminium and columns of manganese bronze. The piston diameter was 9 and three quarter inches with a stroke of 12 inches. (3 votes)