Sentence examples for winding engine from inspiring English sources

One day, he hopes, the cash flow may even get the 90-year-old winding engine back into steam again.

The upcast shaft was used for winding men and had a smaller horizontal winding engine.

The winding engine at Parsonage was a steam engine, fuelled by methane extracted from the mine, while the neighbouring Bickershaw Colliery had a superior electric system.

A massive timber headgear was built over the downcast shaft and a twin-cylinder vertical winding engine, built by Robert Daglish of St Helens, installed in the engine house.

The heat from a fire in the main winding engine house in 1953 caused the winding cables to snap, sending two coal-carrying cages crashing to the bottom of the main shaft and trapping 350 men underground.

A 200 feet reinforced concrete winding tower was built to house a Koepe-type friction wheel built by Metropolitan-Vickers. A new headgear and winding engine were built at the Deep pit shaft; ventilation was by means of two axial-type fans installed in an underground chamber.

Steamships, locomotives, winding engines, weaving sheds, dockyard cranes: as these are all causes I'm happy to support, why make an exception for Scotland's tallest freestanding structure, designed by an architect distinguished for the "strict, no-nonsense, platonic purity" of his work?

In 1871 the firm made pumping and winding engines for Seghill Colliery.

Practically speaking, that makes the 2002 911 Carrera a thrill to drive even at lower revs, because that press-you-back-in-the seat feeling can be felt without winding the engine anywhere near redline.

Shifting a few hundred RPMs earlier than normal will also save gas because you aren't winding the engine up so much.

Still, competing noises from the wind, engine and tires made it a challenge to wring good sound out of the playback equipment.