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It's fair to say that few made it to successful completion until work by some early pioneers - notably a professional engineer who documented the build of her engine (which we sold back in 2010) in a book published at the time - showed the modfications needed to make the things work well.

This one has come to us from a highly skilled engineer, a man responsible for a particularly well made Westbury "Centaur", along with one of the finest Shand Mason fire pump engines we've ever seen.

Re-worked from an earlier build, it has been meticulously stripped, painted and reassembled - the engine now runs well on air in both directions. The commercially made boiler is unsteamed from new - it's had a twice working pressure hydraulic test, with new certification issued.

Must say we like the World War I "trench" livery - first one we've seen thus-painted, we think it suits it very well.