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"New Units at Kalihi Pumping Station Begun" - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - 14 Jun 1927 - Page 1

Erection of two new pumping units at the Kalihi water pumping station began on Monday 13 June 1927 under the direction of Honolulu Iron Works engineers: a 4,000,000-gallon high-pressure pump and a 10,000,000-gallon low-pressure pump, both of the horizontal cross-compound type. "It is planned to repair the pump of the vertical triple expansion type, which has been on duty for many years, and use it as a stand-by and to handle lighter loads."

That old vertical triple-expansion engine is almost certainly the 1899 steam pump now known as the "Old Man of Kalihi", which the Board of Water Supply still keeps in the Historical Room of the Fred Ohrt Water Museum - and very likely the engine James Wilkinson ran as engineer at the station (directories 1904-05; the George Hailele accident of 4 Aug 1907). This article explains how it survived: instead of being scrapped when the new units arrived, it was repaired and kept as a stand-by inside the enlarged station, whose present building (the plaque says erected 1927) still stands at King Street and Waiakamilo Road. Whether the 1927 building was literally built around the old engine is not stated here and has not been confirmed.

Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Tuesday 14 June 1927, page 1 (Newspapers.com image 275154294). Related: Star-Bulletin 13 Sep 1927 p. 1, "Kalihi's High Lift Pump Busy" (image 274847782), the trial run of the new 4,000,000-gallon pump under chief engineer Frederick Ohrt.

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