Lift
Category
Historic Services / Indoor transportation
Date
Unknown
Materials
unspecified
Collection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1232456
Summary
A historic transportation system c.1870-80, rising 30 foot 9.1m for staff and coal, a ram and cylinder jugger with pully chains to lift. 5 foot movement in jigger which equals 30 foot in lift. 200 foot or 61m head of water makes 8.75 tonnes of pressure. Jigger cross section from Armstrong's Apparatus.