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"ME" Beam engine - stock code 6693

A finely made "ME" beam engine, another from the collection recently arrived which includes the Galloway non-dead centre engine, Corliss tandem compound and triple expansion amongst others.

Built to the Oliver Smith design, serialised in "Model Engineer" magazine and representative of a typical mid-nineteenth century engine, complete with water pump and geared layshaft with auxiliary drive pulley.