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18 photos and 1 illustration tagged engineroom, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ship
• maritimeheritage
• archives
• industry
• blackandwhitephotograph
• unusual
• marineengineering
• shipbuildingheritage
• industrialheritage
• northeastofengland
• digitalimage
• vessel
• construction
• components
• fascinating
• shipbuilding
• unitedkingdom
• pipe
• wall
• floor
• sunderland
• abstract
• shipyard
• structure

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• North East Museums 10 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 3 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Mauretania Starting Platform

from North East Museums

• FrigateRN said:

  The ingenuity that goes into the creating of a ship, both then and now, is something to behold.

• benicektoo said:

  Who would have stood at this post?

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Hard to say exactly, but an inexperienced man wouldn't have been allowed to operate the controls when moving the ship around in port. So more than likely one of the 2nd engineers, while the Chief Engineer coordinated the work of all the Engine Room Staff.

• Dave said:

  They certainly don't make them like that anymore.

• Doug D said:

  I have done some instrument tubing in gas plants, and the tubing here is very well done considering they likely didn't have the benders that we use today.

Engine room of the bulk carrier 'Fernspring'

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  I didn't realise those facts! Could they be Doxford engines in the photo?

• optimal chicken said:

  Edit; looking very much like Doxford engines. Checking online the ship was eventually broken up in China in 1987. It was a large ship!

• Willie Chree said:

  It is indeed a Doxford J Type.

Tramway Power House, 1900

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• 2 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  This Powerhouse drove the cable tramway from King Street wharf to Ocean Street Edgecliff from 1894 to electrification in 1905. Ref. www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccoznz.html

• beachcomber australia said:

  This "Cable Tram Power House" is marked on this 1903 interactive map, though I cannot tell EXACTLY where - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm1635-sd&rgn=0...

• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:

  Thanks for adding this info and those dates. Perhaps the "Cable Tram Power House" on the map is the tiny square under the red line, where the text is?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Found it! It is the marked square north of the road, left of the "C" of 'Cable'. A 'sewer' flowed underneath and into Rushcutters Bay. On old maps there was a bridge there called Bentley's Bridge. Ref. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sydney#Watson.27s_Bay_Line

• beachcomber australia said:

  See -