Snapper Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 You can go to Greatstone on Sea near Dungeness in Kent - (or Littlestone - can't be exact, but I could take you right to the houses) and see two little square bungalows which housed pumping gear for Pluto 2. MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Weren't the pumping stations on the IOW painted up as houses? Have to say - the British came into there own during WWII. Pykrete - :wow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 One of the pumps is in Duxford close to the entrance to the D-Day area. There's a photo of it on flickr here- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane.c Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Interesting thread watched the footage last year at war and peace in a tent, very good film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I seem to remember that PLUTO runs through Blackgang chine on the Isle of Wight and there is an exibition telling its story from start to finish Yep you can see some of it there still now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rog8811 Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Am I right in thiking that at least one Fowler road locomotive was shipped over to haul the pipeline ashore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulture Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Yep you can see some of it there still now. Here's a photo I took in 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 i think i remember seeing a old picture of one of the pumping houses disquised as an old ice cream parlour on the coast not 100% sure :-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rog8811 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 From here http://www.combinedops.com/pluto.htm I find I was nearly correct, not road locomotives but ploughing engines with modified clip drums. "It appears that a naval officer charged with the task of getting the pipelines across the Channel was having difficulties getting the pipes ashore. The officer recalled a boyhood memory of watching two steam powered ploughing engines at work. A phone call to the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries resulted in six (sic) engines being allocated to the PLUTO project. It appears that two engines went to the IoW... one each to Sandown and Thorpes Bay, one to Lepe at the entrance to Beaulieu River on the mainland opposite Cowes, one to the PLUTO training exercise area at Hengistbury Head near Bournemouth and one to France which was given the name STEVE - a Fowler class BB1 with works No 15220, built in 1918. The engine's modified hauling drum exerted a 14-ton pull to bring the pipes ashore." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 i think i remember seeing a old picture of one of the pumping houses disquised as an old ice cream parlour on the coast not 100% sure :-\ You owe me a pint in the clubhouse bar for proving you right!!! :cool2: Amazing footage here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 nice one thanks for sharing your pint is on the bar now waiting for you hurry though it closes in 5mins for cleaning :yawn: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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