Gas engine to drive pumps (at right).
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Gas engine with large fly wheel – used to drive the pumping machinery when water was shut off.”
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Another view of gas engine and pumps.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Left. Gas Engine. Centre. Booster pump to increase gas pressure in mains. Right. Exhauster pump.”
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Stokehouse of main Gas Works building showing coke against back wall and large gas main round the building carrying the gas from the retorts to the purifiers.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Coke against back wall. Large gas main round the building carrying the gas from the retorts to be pumped through the purifiers. High louvred vent in roof to let out escaping steam and smoke from stokehouse.”
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Oxide purifiers (large rectangular steel holders) inside building.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Oxide purifiers.”
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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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First set of gas purifying units to remove dust and condensates.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Purifying units for gas produced from coke.”
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Written on back – New Holder 1950
Bottom section of new Gasometer (gas storage holder).
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Bottom section of new holder which will eventually be filled with water.”
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Written on back of original photo with black ink pen – Nov 1949
Foundation for new gasometer with gasworks in background. View from eastern side of gasworks.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “View from eastern end showing preparation of foundation for new 50,000 cub.ft. gasometer.”
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Written on back of original photo with black ink pen – New holder 1950
Closer view of steel base for new gasometer under construction.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Steel plates being riveted together to form the bottom section of new 50,000 cub.ft. gasometer.”
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Gas Works main building, view of south side.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “South view.”
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Gas Works viewed from Cambridge Street.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “View of Gasworks and Gasometer from Cambridge Street.”
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Written on back of original photo with black ink pen – Levin 10/2/40 Showing return flue & are sealed over with 18×18 tiles. Note the 1” scones behind the producer mouthpiece to keep it up to floor level.
Retort bed being rebuilt.
Info written on back of original photo: “Showing return flue & are sealed over with 18×18 tiles. Note the 1” scones behind the producer mouthpiece to keep it up to floor level.”
No typed caption on display board for this photo.
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Gas making retorts.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “View of Retorts. Large vertical pipes carry the gas away from the cooking coal. 3 heavy cast iron lids with steel rings lifted by a trolley to open up the fires beneath the retorts – which were stoked with coke – heating the retorts to 1300 deg. Retorts are 10 ft. deep horizontal ovens. Steel plates in the floor covered an underground gallery – from where the fires had to be clinkered and the ashes shovelled up to floor level.”
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Oxide purifiers (large rectangular steel holders) outside building.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Vessels filled with oxide dirt (from Australia) for purifying gas.”
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Written on back of original photo with black ink pen – Levin Feb. 1940 Penciled on back - 24” x 15” x 10’ M 5’6” long P 4’6” long
Retort bed being rebuilt.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Retort bed being rebuilt.”
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”
Newly completed gasometer (gas holder) being painted. 6 men (unidentified) standing on the tank.
Typed caption on display board for this photo reads: “Completed holder receiving a coat of protective paint. The top section of the holder rises and falls on diagonal rails. Gas pumped in under pressure lifts the top section and its weight maintains steady pressure in the town mains.”
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