Minors in strange places

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sv4670
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Minors in strange places

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I was given a rather nice book for Christmas: The Wonder Book of Machinery, I found the attached picture in an article about large turbines:
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Derek,

Nice book!

This was actually covered in a past VMR Magazine (or was it in one of our Yearbooks?). It is a 1932 season Minor saloon. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Edited to add:

Found it - 2010 Yearbook.

The caption was:

"So this is how Minors were made!

This 1932 season saloon is shown inside a massive 84” centrifugal pump at St. Germans Pumping Station in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Built in 1934, the pumping facility at Wiggenhall, St. Germans is land drainage and flood alleviation pumping station. The station pumps the land drainage and flood flows from the Middle Level system into the tidal Ouse River. The photograph was taken to show the scale of the new pump."

Ian
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