Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Steam Navvy and the Dock Extension of 1883 . . .

Figure 1 - Dunbar and Ruston's Steam Navvy - Side View.

Figure 2 - Dunbar and Ruston's Steam Navvy - Plan View.

Figures 1 & 2 - Dunbar and Ruston's Steam Navvy -  Side and Plan Views. - Engineering [516] [499] 21st August 1885.

 
Ten-Ton Steam Navvy, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor and Co. Limited, Lincoln, Engineers.
Ten-Ton Steam Navvy, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor and Co. Limited, Lincoln, Engineers. An illustration published during 1899 in 'The Engineer' periodical [015] witness that the design of the steam navvy was fundamentally the same as that used at Penarth Dock extension works nearly twenty years earlier.
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