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Mr A.C Kennerley working beside water powered pelton wheel exhauster pump.

Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Mr A.C Kennerley working on a washer. To his right is a water pelton wheel used to drive the exhauster pump – to pump the gas from the retorts to the gasometers.”

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1950,
a.c. kennerley,
levin,
levin municipal gas works,
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Related items

Newly completed gasometer being painted
Oxide purifiers
Gas engine to drive pumps
Gas making retorts
Gas Works viewed from Cambridge Street
Gas Works main building (view of south side)
Steel base for new gasometer under construction
Bottom section of new Gasometer
First set of gas purifying units
Oxide purifiers
Stokehouse of main Gas Works building
Another view of gas engine and pumps