Lamp Pump Syndicate

1908. From Engineering 1908/12/11

of 12, of 12 Carey-street, Westminster; of 13 Walbrook, London

1907 Description and drawing of Lamp Pump

1908 'In our description of the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Newcastle, we referred briefly to a new type of pump of a very simple and safe construction, exhibited by the Lamp Pump Syndicate, Limited, 12, Carey-street, Westminster, and specially suitable for small isolated water supplies. The machine, the construction of which is clearly shown in Figs. 1 to 3, above, is a complete surface-condensing steam-engine and water-pump combined. .... The engine works on the well-known Cornish cycle, and is generally supplied with steam at, or at but little over atmospheric pressure .... a good of 28 in. is easily maintained. The steam pressure being also low, the apparatus can be left to work for hours at a time without attention, the boiler being fired by a paraffin lamp. The engine is started by hand, a vacuum being established in the condenser by a few turns of the fly-wheel, after which it requires no further attention. The pump illustrated, when started and supplied with steam at atmospheric pressure, at 120 revolutions per minute, and pumps against head equivalent to 20 lb. per square inch at the base of the water column.'

1911 'SMALL ENGINE TO PUMP WATER.— In your issue of Dec. 17 " Agent" asks it anyone can tell him of an inexpensive pump for raising water. As no one has sent a reply so far, may I suggest to him to apply to the Lamp Pump Syndicate, 12, Carey-street, Westminster, for their price list. I have just installed one of their pumps here with most satisfactory results. With a suction lift of about 10ft. it will force 700 gallons per hour to the top of a tower 44ft. high, through about 150 ft. of 1in. rising main, with a consumption of a trifle over one quart of paraffin. These pumps are marvels of ingenuity and compactness, and, being engine and pump combined, take up a space not exceeding 3 ft. square. They can easily be disconnected and wheeled away in a hand barrow.—SATISFIED.'

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