Constructing an underground water wheel for Park Level Mine at Killhope
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Underground water wheels were used to pump water from mines, allowing miners to work at a greater depth below the surface. When Killhope was in need of an underground water wheel for Park Level Mine, the Friends offered to design, manufacture and install one.
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Our former chairman, Dick Graham, led this project. Thanks to his considerable powers of persuasion the design, construction and installation of the waterwheel in Park Level became a superb training scheme for graduate apprentices at Rolls Royce’s Industrial Power Group Training Centre. It was with huge satisfaction that we watched this group of young people take on and overcome all the challenges involved. To this day Killhope probably has the world’s only Rolls Royce waterwheel.
