Chiswick Main Drainage Works

1879 Description of the works, with emphasis on the pumping engines, made by Hathorn, Davey and Co. 'One of the two pairs now at Chiswick was exhibited by the makers with other machinery at Paris, where it gained a gold medal, and where its extreme simplicity of design and directness of action contrasted very favourably with the very opposite characteristics shown in most of the pumping machinery of foreign design. ...'[1]
