MARIETTA ‘Doktor’ Beam Engine
£ P.O.A.
A rare ‘Doktor’ type marine beam engine, made in USA.
Built C1900 as a “save all” emergency pump and power plant for the famous Mississippi stern wheelers. This is a rare and stunning survivor.
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£ P.O.A.
1827 ALMOND Grasshopper Beam Engine
This very rare and early small ‘grasshopper’ type beam engine is believed to have been constructed by J.P. Almond of North Shields in 1827.
The engine was acquired in the 1870’s by Day & Co., Southampton, and fitted to a slipway winching system at Cowes, I.O.W. where it ran until the mid 1990’s (on compressed air), making it the last working grasshopper engine in the world?
£75,000 or near offers.
SOLD
£2,000.00
POLLIT & WIGZELL Steam Engine ‘Barring Engine’
Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical
with declutchable reduction gear.
Designed for turning over (barring) large stationary engines, this attractive open crank engine sits on a massive cast base featuring reduction gears and a Bendix declutching drive gear.
*Correction* Although believed built by Pollit & Wigzell, Bradford this engine is actually badged “Stephenson”.
Cylinder 4″ x 6″ (approx).
Approx 50″ High, Bed 32″ Long x 21″ Wide.
Wt approx 600 Kg.
In excellent restored condition.
Steam Lawnmover Power Plant – UNIQUE!
A combined boiler and single cylinder steam engine.
Thought to be a unique survivor, the only steam lawnmover engine in existence, this was marketed as a ‘conversion’ kit for small lawnmowers in c1895.
Cylinder 2″ x 3 1/2″.
In nice, original condition.
SOLD
£1,250.00
WESTMINSTER Vertical Workshop Engine, Cylinder 6″ x 9″
Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical
Built in the UK c1900.
A rare and very attractive cast bottle framed engine.
Cylinder 6″ x 9″. Wt approx 150 KGs.
Approx 68″ High.
Currently dismantled for storage but complete.
In good unrestored condition.
SOLD
£3,000.00
RUSTON PROCTOR Vertical Workshop Engine, Cylinder 4″ x 8″
Single Cylinder Inverted Vertical
2 H.P. “Improved Class V”.
No. 17751 ~ Built 1893.
Cylinder 4″ x 8″ ~ Flywheel 30″ Dia.
Height 58″ (ex. governor).
A rare and very attractive vertical engine.
In very nice original condition.
