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In 1960 there was a Harker compound steam engine in the marine engineering laboratory at Riversdale Technical College (sadly now gone and the college replaced by a housing estate) in Aigburth, south Liverpool. Hundreds of young marine engineers will have been familiar with it.
This was possibly one of the last compound engines ever built, unless it was intended for small boats. Companies like the Power Gas Corporation of Bowesfield, which built gas producers for piston engines, were helping to kill off the steam engine.
In 1960 there was a Harker compound steam engine in the marine engineering laboratory at Riversdale Technical College (sadly now gone and the college replaced by a housing estate) in Aigburth, south Liverpool. Hundreds of young marine engineers will have been familiar with it.
When Harkers built this engine originally they would have been in the Danby Road area.
This was possibly one of the last compound engines ever built, unless it was intended for small boats. Companies like the Power Gas Corporation of Bowesfield, which built gas producers for piston engines, were helping to kill off the steam engine.