More pumps by R A Lister and Co, byproducts from trips looking for water- or wind-powered pumping equipment.
I won’t repeat the background from the previous post (# 6), but Lister are probably best known for their engines although they made all sorts of stuff, including pumps.
Their engine-plus-pump combos bought as a unit seem to have been popular and there are a couple of examples here.
Laverton. A typical double acting H’ type shallow well pump above a reservoir, not far from a hydraulic ram.
Whatever powered it has gone.
Ogbourne St George. One at the site of windpump - the only things remaining were a reservoir and the remains of a Lister deep well pump.
‘Deep well’ means that the water level is more than about 6 yards down so the actual pump cylinder is under reciprocating mechanism at the bottom of a well.
Banbury. A domestic Lister pump, driven in this case by a Briggs and Stratton, best known for lawn mowers.
Nearby was a Godwin OH series pump - Godwin actually manufactured Lister ‘H’ pumps under license from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s, as well as their own brand.
Twinhoe. A partially buried engine-plus-pump combo near a hydraulic ram.
At first the only visible bit was the cylindrical ballast tank sticking out of a lump of ivy - the ballast is clearly a replacement.
The mechanism was so heavily entwined with ivy roots it was difficult to dig out completely, but the pump may be a H2L model.
Broxfield. Another Lister engine-plus-pump combo this time at the site of a windpump.
The triangular base of the windpump tower and the ballast for its pump can still be seen.
Talking to the farmer on the way out I was told that the old Lister probably hadn’t run since the 50s.
The windpump used to fill a reservoir in the next field, but got hit by farm machinery and was cleared fairly recently.
Colesbourne. Finally, the apotheosis of agrarian epic, a cow-powered pump.
These are actually quite common, although I suspect your average urban trespass child may not have seen one.
It’s very simple - a large enough ruminant can push the lever to get a drink.
This Lister example was near a windpump, probably pumping water from the same well.
I won’t repeat the background from the previous post (# 6), but Lister are probably best known for their engines although they made all sorts of stuff, including pumps.
Their engine-plus-pump combos bought as a unit seem to have been popular and there are a couple of examples here.
Laverton. A typical double acting H’ type shallow well pump above a reservoir, not far from a hydraulic ram.
Whatever powered it has gone.
Ogbourne St George. One at the site of windpump - the only things remaining were a reservoir and the remains of a Lister deep well pump.
‘Deep well’ means that the water level is more than about 6 yards down so the actual pump cylinder is under reciprocating mechanism at the bottom of a well.
Banbury. A domestic Lister pump, driven in this case by a Briggs and Stratton, best known for lawn mowers.
Nearby was a Godwin OH series pump - Godwin actually manufactured Lister ‘H’ pumps under license from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s, as well as their own brand.
Twinhoe. A partially buried engine-plus-pump combo near a hydraulic ram.
At first the only visible bit was the cylindrical ballast tank sticking out of a lump of ivy - the ballast is clearly a replacement.
The mechanism was so heavily entwined with ivy roots it was difficult to dig out completely, but the pump may be a H2L model.
Broxfield. Another Lister engine-plus-pump combo this time at the site of a windpump.
The triangular base of the windpump tower and the ballast for its pump can still be seen.
Talking to the farmer on the way out I was told that the old Lister probably hadn’t run since the 50s.
The windpump used to fill a reservoir in the next field, but got hit by farm machinery and was cleared fairly recently.
Colesbourne. Finally, the apotheosis of agrarian epic, a cow-powered pump.
These are actually quite common, although I suspect your average urban trespass child may not have seen one.
It’s very simple - a large enough ruminant can push the lever to get a drink.
This Lister example was near a windpump, probably pumping water from the same well.
