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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2983

Inside the Engine Room was a belt driven suction pump and a number of associated storage tanks

Inside the Engine Room was a belt driven suction pump and a number of associated storage tanks. At this time the vacuum cleaner was in its infancy and those institutions with large requirements like Hotels, Theatres, Department Stores, Barracks and Railway Companies had static arrangements like this, from which rigid and flexible pipes were taken to the point of work. The principle manufacturer of vacuum cleaning equipment in the UK, was the British Vacuum Cleaning Company, which had been incorporated in 1903 having been established the previous year by Hubert Booth, who had patented an invention for the cleaning of carpets and other articles by suction caused by the creation of a vacuum in 1901.

Robert Ferris

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