Now, I have started to add Indian Stationary
Steam Videos to my YouTube channel
(latest addition 11th January 2014).
Click here for the guest video clip home
page.
If you would like to contribute to this section of the
international steam website please email y (this
is not a link you have to retype the address) - we need approx 320 x 240 video
clips (normally 'wmv' format, 1 to 3Mb file size.
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Our own clips on these pages are taken from present and
future ISV DVDs. These are properly
researched quality documentary films with a story to tell.
'National Geographic Stuff' said one purchaser.
We also offer industrial archaeology
compilation DVDs from our travels to steam powered mills in Asia. |
South of Moulmein (Mawlamyine) in Burma (Myanmar) is
the village of Dakhondaing which has just one active rice mill powered by this
Tangye steam engine, built around 1900. We have several hours of video of the
mill itself, we now need to return to get some coverage of life in the village
itself.... (8th January 2009) RD
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A fabulous discovery in January 2008 in Calcutta was a set of steam hammers
working in small steel foundries. This brief clip does not do total justice to
the scene and the atmosphere (2nd March 2008, RD):
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This Indian rice mill engine is a bit of a mystery, it bears a passing
resemblance to the Marshall below, the experts say it's from a different
builder but they can't say which. Any ideas would be very welcome (9th July
2007):
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The next
two clips are of unusual trip/drop valve engines which we saw at
work in West Bengal, India in late 2006. This is an example of
Marshall's L class (5th July 2007):
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Here we visit a rice mill in Thailand (24th April 2007):
For more information on this and other Thai rice mills, click
here.
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This (uploaded 13th April 2007) shows the boilers at Olean sugar mill in
East Java, Indonesia and there's an 1891 stationary steam
engine at work in there somewhere:
If you enjoy the clip, then why not click here for more
information on 'Sweet Spot'.
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The second offering (22nd March 2007) is from our travels in
Burma (Myanmar) and
shows an old stationary steam engine in a brand new rice mill in the north of
the country. The plate shown is from the importing agent, just who made it
originally is not known:
Click here for more more information on Temples
of Steam. We have now issued a set of DVDs of the stationary engines
in this country.
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