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NATURAL MECHANICAL MUSEUM
2 rue Blanche Hoschedé-Monet
27620 GIVERNY
Phone : 33 (0)2 32 21 26 33
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(JPG) CHRONOLOGY

- 1955 : salvation by Jean-pierre et René of the first Bernard WO engine :
back in service at the Giverny mill.
- 1956 : salvation at uncle Aimé house of a Benjamin engine Back in service.
- 196o : purchase (7.62eu) at Vernon scrapper a Vendeuvre diesel frozen Cracked : no success.
- 1967 : purchase by Daniel et Jean-pierre a CL Conord frozen cracked. No success, used as spare parts.
- 1968 : purchase by Daniel et Jean-pierre of Albaret portable steam Engine at Vesly 25 kms on the road.

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- 1970 : Daniel death ; activities on sleep.
- 1972 ; Adolphe : partial reconstruction on Albaret.
- 1974 : Adolphe death : closing of the blacksmith workshop.
- 1975 : restoration on Albaret by Jean-pierre.
- 1976 : completion Albaret by Gérard.
- 1982 : first exhibition at ECOS agricultural show.
- 1983 : first big moving : a Ruston 5HR from Meaux to Giverny.

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- 1984 : purchase first tractor : Farmall cub.
- 1989 : Great dorset steam fair exhibition :
transport, custom over the channel.
- 1990 : installation of the actual museum.

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