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Old horizontal engine - stock code 2357

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Old horizontal engine
Old horizontal engine
Old horizontal engine
Old horizontal engine
Old horizontal engine

One of several engines recently unearthed from a barn where they have lain for many years, covered in oil and dust. This engine appears to be a small working engine rather than large model - it comes from the pre-fractional horsepower electric motor era, when it would have been paired with a coal-fired boiler. The cast iron bed is rather elegantly proportioned, the cylinder has a basic steel lagging which, a hundred years ago, was probably blued.

Overall length 18 inches
Flywheel 7 inch diameter
Bore approx 1 1/2 inch
Stroke 2 3/4 inch