{"id":342,"date":"2025-06-10T21:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/model-hele-shaw-pump\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:56:48","slug":"model-hele-shaw-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/model-hele-shaw-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Hele-Shaw Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A beautiful little working model of a Hele-Shaw pump, made by Bar Knight in Clydebank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bar Knight made models for the famous Clyde Model Dockyard in the Argyle Arcade, the company still exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This model was probably used to teach ship\u2019s engineers &#8211; Hele-Shaw pumps are often used in ship steering gear, they\u2019re very clever as they can pump in either direction without changing the speed or direction of the input shaft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1-1840x1380.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2274-2-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1-1840x1380.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2275-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2276-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2276-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2276-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2276-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kinetics-online.co.uk\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_2276-1.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful little working model of a Hele-Shaw pump, made by Bar Knight in Clydebank. 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