Crossley-Premier

One of these 300hp diesels running drainage pumps is about to be removed for display at the museum.

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• diesel
• crossley
• stationary
• engine

[turboslag]

Must have been a nice job looking after that engine house !! Where were they originally located ?

[semidiesel]

North of Wisbech in Lincolnshire. The last of the three engines has just been removed.

[LRCVWDude]

Here's one for you; how's that engine cooled? i see no sign of cooling fins on the cylinders, or any kind of radiator to cool it. Does it run so slow it doesn't need cooling or something?

[semidiesel]

Water cooled with a circ pump driven from the crank.

[semidiesel]

Full diesel

[amfan12]

Ah, how large is this engine, and how many cylinders? It looks to be at least 2-3 meters long...

[semidiesel]

Total weight about 28 tons, 4 cylinders in pairs horizontally opposed.

If you have a look at the internalfire dot com website and look in the Internal Fire Photos/IF Images/Tydd Gote album there are a whole load of pictures of the engine being dismantled.

[TheLaurencekid]

lol 1:30 the roots blower sounds like a trackter engine

[JonatanGronoset]

That be some BIG engine!

[Slackparr]

I worked at Crossley premier as an apprentice.

We started off working on HH14s and eventually to RM08s They were huge engines and I well remember working in the cylinders with a candle for lighting

[douro20]

I can remember reading about an engine like this which is at an engineering school in the USA, and it's electric start, and it doesn't have a blower.

[amfan12]

One more question, is this engine a semi-diesel as well, or is it a full-blown diesel engine?