Installed originally at a pumping station at Ely Wells, Cardiff in 1851 to pump clean drinking water for the citizens of Cardiff. A water pumping station was erected after polluted water from the River Taff had killed one in fifty of the population of Cardiff in an outbreak of cholera in 1850. Taken out of service in c1882 and subsequently moved to Llanishen Reservoir in Cardiff where it worked until 1921rem

Originally installed at Alton Court Waterworks Pumping Station, Ross on Wye. It was in general service until 1964 and was last used in 1970. For some years from 1932 onwards it provided back-up to its successor engine, an Allen two-cylinder diesel engine which can also be found at the Museum.