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.
A very nice, highly original and complete example of a Merryweather & Sons hand-drawn portable steam fire pump.
Merryweather No.4715
7200 Gallons per Hour / 250 Ft Head at 200 r.p.m.
Single cylinder vertical engine driven pump mounted to a vertical boiler designed to raise steam at high speed, mounted on a two wheel hand-drawn trolley, and intended for use at estates, factories and institutional buildings, etc.
£15,000.00
£8,500.00
