Internal Fire – Museum of Power

Internal Fire – Museum of Power

View into Hall 1
Location within Ceredigion
Location Tanygroes, Ceredigion, Wales
Coordinates 52°07′12″N 4°29′28″W / 52.11987°N 4.49122°W / 52.11987; -4.49122
Type Technology museum
Website Internal Fire – Museum of Power

The Internal Fire – Museum of Power is a museum of internal combustion engines in West Wales. The museum's collection is mostly of larger stationary diesel engines, as used for generating sets and pumping stations. The museum is located at Tanygroes, Ceredigion, near Cardigan.

Exhibits

Sulzer 1D25 Air-blast injection Diesel
Allen straight-two hot bulb engine

Most of the engines are restored to working order. Each day, a range of engines will be in operation during the museum's opening. On special occasions, at Easter and the second weekend in October, an attempt is made to run as many of the engines as possible.

Diesel

The museum operates the oldest working diesel engine in the UK, a 1912 Sulzer single cylinder Air-blast injection Diesel, an example of the original Rudolf Diesel design.

Steam

The museum now houses over 200 tons of working engines in nine Halls and is in the process of creating a new Steam Hall which will house a 1903 J & E Wood 500hp tandem compound along with an 1879 John Penn twin cylinder oscillating paddle steamer (ex Empress) as a number of smaller engines including the only surviving Petter steam engine.

Gas turbine

One of the museum's most unusual exhibits is a 'Pocket Power Station', powered by a Bristol Proteus gas turbine engine.[1][2] The regional electricity board installed several 2.7MW remote operated generation sets for peak load powered by the Proteus. Designed to run for ten years many were still in use forty years later.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ South Western Electricity Historical Society. "SWEB's Pocket Power Stations". Internal Fire - Museum of Power.
  2. ↑ "Pocket Power Station". A History of the World. BBC.
  3. ↑ "Pocket Power Station wins award". BBC Mid Wales. 11 June 2010.

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