A very nice, well preserved and restored example of a portable steam engine by Merlin & Co, Societe Vierzon Francais (Locomobile Société Français, France).
Approx. 6 NHP
For sale in good condition, with current boiler certificates.
An ex-Admiralty (Royal Navy) dockyard boiler, built by Marshall & Sons Ltd, Gainsborough c1940.
Used for engine running and other testing purposes at a Royal Navy dockyard, this high output steam boiler is of riveted construction and sits on Marshall’s sprung type wheels. For sale with most fittings including safety valve and gauge glass frames, etc.
No.1384 ~ Built c1885 8 NHP Single Cylinder The 2nd earliest known Foster. A very rare and unusual early portable with heavy oak fore-carriage, for sale in unrestored condition.
Built 1868 by Richard Hornsby Believed No.1531 ~ Class 5A ~ About 8 NHP Duplex Possibly the oldest Hornsby in the UK? A rare and unusual early portable in reasonable, unrestored condition.
With a brass clad boiler and twin flywheels, this is a very pretty French made portable, believed in reasonable condition but requiring some restoration work.
Built by Marshall & Sons, Ltd of Gainsborough, Lincs, this unusual but attractive “Britannia” type portable features a barrell section firebox making it relatively easy to replace.
£8,500.00
£7,500.00
