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Leak compound engine - stock code 8133

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Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
Leak compound engine
A compound launch engine to the A.A.Leak design; originally drawn up for use in a 25-35 foot hull, the engine is rated at 11.2ihp at 450rpm on 120psi.

Quite a rare thing, we had another back in 2005 (there are pictures in the archive here), collected (along with a hugely heavy vertical boiler) by a group of young men claiming they were going to put it in a locomotive.

Sounded like a good scheme, I thought no more about it until, some years later, it popped up at the Ffestiniog's first "Quirks & Curiosities" gala as "Leary" - there's some more information about that engine with some pictures on Festipedia here. They'd made a nice job of it.

This engine is complete and turns over. It has a non-standard reversing handle fitted, with the original type included in a box of bits, along with an air pump and various other odds & sods.
 
If you're planning either a big boat or a quirky narrow gauge locomotive, could be just what you need. It's complete with a well-thumbed and annotated copy of the original build series from "Model Engineer" mgazine.
length/inches 21
width/inches 17
height/inches 26
weight/kg 100
bore x stroke/inches 3 & 5 x 3
cylinder material cast iron
valve type piston HP slide LP
valve gear Stephensons