Dear Neil, Collecting and restoring steam engines is my hobby. Recently in the village I found on an old water pump flywheel from a steam engine, it's all that's left of it. Could you help determine its origin, what kind of machine it was and whether it was produced in England? I want to tell a little history of this flywheel, its location Nizhny Novgorod region, Nizhny Novgorod district, Bezvodivka parish. The village is located on the Volga river. It has a lower coastal part and has a high hilly slope. At the bottom of the river there was a pumping station, which pumped water into the upper part of the Waterless water tower. This flywheel is part of that machine. We are engaged in the restoration and restoration of steam engines. If we can identify the flywheel and have a photo of this steam engine, we'd like to recreate it. Dear Neil, in response to Geoff Perkins' correspondence entitled 'Old Lathes in Tasmania' in the December 2018 addition, I think that the mystery machine in pictures 1 and 2 is a Drummond 'Pre-B' type. Attached is a picture of mine, which is awaiting restoration. Mine came without the treadle drive, so I'm thinking of eventually hooking it up to the lineshaft I'm building at my workshop in France. Hope that's helpful.
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