woollen mill, c 1796, but was never used for manufacturing textiles. Exhibits include a 1,425,000 litre pot still, a 5 m X 6 m water wheel and a beam engine in the classical style. Visits conclude with

project was responsible to William Jessop (1745-1815). The canal is now used to carry about 27,000,000 litres of drinking water a day from the Horseshoe Falls further upstream on the River Dee to towns in Cheshire

was George Croydon Marks. The two cars each carry 40 people and a reservoir that holds around 3,000 litres of water. As one car reaches the bottom its reservoir is emptied and the one at the top is filled

transport company. It works on the counter-balance principle and is powered by the weight of up to 7,000 litres of water in a tank below the downward car. The three-rail rack-and-pinion track is 1-m gauge with

between the town of Saltburn and the pleasure pier and beach. Two twelve-person cars fitted with 1,500-litre water tanks run on parallel standard-gauge tracks. A brakeman at the top regulates the movement by

by André Besnier (1894-1955) and in its first week his employees made 17 Camenbert cheeses from 35 litres of milk. When André Besnier was succeeded in 1955 by his son Michael Besnier the company had only

largest steam engine ever built. Its cylinder is no less than 144 in diameter and it can pump 320,000 litres of water per minute. The best thing about it is that it is back in working order. Hydraulically powered

years later and diversified further into pasteurised milk. By 1912 he was selling over 1,000,000 litres of milk every week and was awarded the Legion d’honneur for reducing disease in schoolchildren. Maggi

now the town museum, and includes the 24.38m high Crampton Tower, at the top of which is a 386,000 litre tank that provided pressure for the distribution system.

needs our protection. The Styrum water tower is 50 metres high and used to contain around 500,000 litres of water. It was constructed in 1892/3 on instructions from August Thyssen who wanted to supply water

via a four-kilometre system of hollowed, salt-encrusted pine trunks, contains 240 grams of salt per litre and is considered exceptionally pure, making it much sought-after. An initiative by the owners has

pumped down a 28 inch (710 mm) pipe to Southend at a rate of up to 8,000,000 gallons (35,000,000 litres) a day. In the 1950´s the system was extended with the construction of nearby Hanningfield reservoir

motorcar, which they had developed from a coach. It was driven by a single-cylinder motor with a 0.5 litre piston displacement and a performance of 1.5 horsepower. The vehicle became commercially viable on