Category:Portland Basin waterwheel
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The Portland Basin Canal Warehouse wheel is a external high breastshot suspension water wheel with rim gearing, taken by a spur gear to a lineshaft to the warehouse where it powered the hoist. It replaced an earlier wooden wheel. It was built in 1849, and restored in 1988 by Dorothea Restorations of Whalley Bridge, Derbyshire.
It originally cost UKP 1078 0s 6d and produced 15hp. It is 0.92 m wide and 7.3 m in diameter, with rim gearing and a shroud depth of 0.330 m. It has 32 iron spokes (like a bicycle wheel).It is made of cast and wrought iron to a design introduced by Thomas Hewes and refined by William Fairburn.
Media in category "Portland Basin waterwheel"
The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Portland Basin sluice gate- 5193.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.52 MB
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Portland Basin Waterwheel - geograph.org.uk - 4012323.jpg 640 × 480; 380 KB
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Portland Basin waterwheel bearing- 5195.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.49 MB
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Portland Basin waterwheel gearing- 5197.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.51 MB
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Portland Basin waterwheel- 5185.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.5 MB
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Portland Basin waterwheel- 5187.JPG 2,136 × 2,848; 1.48 MB
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Portland Basin- drive shaft 5192.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.57 MB
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Portland Basin- nut to drive shaft 5191.JPG 2,848 × 2,136; 1.57 MB
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Waterwheel at Portland Basin Museum - geograph.org.uk - 4012318.jpg 640 × 480; 383 KB
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