Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, I knew that there woould be someone on the LUG who knew. I think it may be a Marshall. I didn't get the picture of the front because there was a safety line around it keeping people away from the drive belts. Peter Douglas M. Sharp wrote: > Sorry Peter, > I've been through my steam library and found nothing. But I've manged to > narrow it down a bit. > Could be a Paxman Portable Engine > http://www.nelmes.fsnet.co.uk/paxman/portcata.jpg > or a Marshall > http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/jgwalker/ > or maybe one of these > http://www.prestonservices.co.uk/portables.htm > The support of the flywheel axle seems to be the Marshall design. > > There are in fact thousands of references, Google on "portable steam > engine" there's enough to keep you busy for a few days. > Next time please take a shot from the front, the makers name is nearly > always on the smoke box door. > Douglas > > > Douglas M. Sharp schrieb: > >> >> >> Peter Dzwig schrieb: >> >>> >>> >>> To finish up - can anyone tell me exactly what this is please? >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album70/SteamEngineRudgwick200408 >>> >>> SURELY someone on the LUG has the expertise!!!! >>> >>> >>> All: IIIf 5cm f1.5 Summarit Kodak T400CN >>> >>> Your comments are as always welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look. >>> >>> Peter Dzwig >>> >> What it is is easy Peter. >> A stationary steam engine, they were pulled along to where they were >> needed by horses, just like hitching a portable generator behind a >> Landrover today. Mainly used for powering threshing machines, balers >> or beet-cutters, sometimes in mobile saw-mills too.The expense of >> having your own thresher was often defrayed by itinerant threshing >> companies with traction engines travelling from farm to farm pulling a >> whole a full range of harvesting equipment. Ploughing teams with 2 >> colossal >> Fowler ploughing engines, which pulled heavy ploughs on a wire rope >> between them across a field (then moving up for the next set of >> furrows) were also common in the area I was born. >> Though it is more than likely that this machine would have been used >> on a private farm. >> It looks to be an english construction, (Ransome, Garrett or Burell?), >> and more likely coal-fired than wood or straw. Most of the straw >> burners had spark arresters on the funnel. >> I'll take a look in my reference stuff tomorrow, maybe there's >> something in there. >> cheers >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >