Volume Six - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Select Aspects - Hydraulic Accumulators . . .

Form of Tender - "Fielding & Platt Ltd. of Atlas Works, Gloucester do hereby offer to supply the Taff Vale Railway company with one 22" Hydraulic Accumulator for the sum of £1,530. or alternatively one 20" Ram Hyd. Accumulator for the sum of £1,430, in accordance with the foregoing General Conditions and the Specification submitted herewith." The delivery time for both was four months.

The tender was subsequently accepted by the Board of the Taff Vale Railway company and the larger 22" diameter ram was the chosen option at a cost of £1,530 on 6th June 1913.

Presumably the Fielding & Platt hydraulic accumulator was duly constructed and delivered to Penarth Dock adjacent to tip number 13 during October 1913.