H3 Pumps with overhead mounted motors, views taken on site, O/No. 63372, c.1964

Order 63372 for Wednesbury Tube Co., Bilston, c.1964

R003
By kind permission of Rhodes Interform Ltd.
D7338/14/10/6287
Gloucestershire Archives
D7338/14/10/6287A
Gloucestershire Archives

This pumping system with its associated water hydraulic accumulator station was used to power the 1500 ton Indirect Horizontal Extrusion Press for extruding copper tube.

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  • I drew the layout, foundations and piping for these pumps.

    By Chris Farley (21/09/2015)

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