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Steam Engine in fading light - Pinjore

A Steam engine, at the entrance of the famous Mughal Gardens , Pinjore, appears to be a Railway engine. It actually is a steam engine for running a generator to provide electricity to his Pinjore Garden Palace. It was imported by Maharaja Patiala in 1905. It was made by Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Limited.

 

{Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment. Ransomes also manufactured Direct Current electric motors in a wide range of sizes, and electric forklift trucks and tractors. They manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War. Their base, specially set up in 1845, was named Orwell Works.- Wikipedia}

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