page_title: Cambridge Museum of Technology
section_title: 1909, Gas Engines
hierarchical_section_title: Cambridge Museum of Technology / History / 1909, Gas Engines
caption_attribution_description: English: Cambridge Gas Engines
context_page_description: The Cambridge Museum of Technology is an industrial heritage museum situated in Cambridge, England. The original building, a Scheduled Ancient Monument,
  housed a combined sewage pumping and waste destructor station built in 1894.
context_section_description: To cope with pumping demand after heavy rainfall, caused by the expansion of Cambridge, in 1909 two 94 hp National gas engines were added to the pumping station. These engines drove, by a flat belt, two 15inch Rees Returbo centrifugal pumps, but these were replaced in 1935 by Gwynnes Limited pumps. They could pump to Milton or to temporary storage in storm water tanks, but the prime movers of the sewage remained the steam engines.  The storm water tanks had a capacity of 1,085,275 gallons. Of these gas engines, currently one is in working order.
caption: TL4659 Cambridge Gas Engines
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