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Sometimes when you are out and about, brewery history turns up at the most unexpected places.

At the Crossness Sewerage Pumping Station on the Thames near Abbey Wood on the extremities of South East London there is this stationary steam engine.

[[File:The Truman Engine 2.jpg|center|500px]]

Built in 1900 for [[Truman, Hanbury & Buxton & Co. Ltd]] in Brick Lane together with a sister engine it was used to drive hoists which lifted kegs or barrels from the cellar to the loading dock. The engine was reported to have given trouble free service from 1900 until 1972 when it was replaced by an electric motor.

In 1894 this type of engine sold for £49 but if the four holding bolts were included, it was £51.

Packing, shipment and delivery to anywhere in the British Isles cost £2 10s but oddly delivery to London, Liverpool or Hull was free!

[[File:The Truman Engine 1.jpg|center|500px]]

The model shown was donated to the Crossness Museum in 1975-6 and fully restored in 1987.

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