Between 1880 and 1930, Robinson & Sons of Lincoln built portable steam engines, threshing machinery and related agricultural equipment. This photographic…
The W in Worthington-Simpson usually stands for Worthington, inherited from the Charles F. Worthington Company when it merged with W. J. Simpson & Co in 1923.…
At first light, the pump house was the liveliest building in the village. A handle was pulled, the flywheel gathered momentum, and the 1928 Petter ‘M2’ settled…
British stationary engines are held together by fasteners that often look interchangeable but are not. A 1/2-inch nut can carry Whitworth, British Standard…
The evolution of the Lister ‘CS’ engine’s cooling system from 1930 to 1950 is best understood as gradual refinement rather than a sudden redesign. The compact…
An engine collection becomes richer when its objects are documented as evidence as well as machines. Serial plates, builder’s notes and workshop photographs…
Period advertising supports a focused review of the 1925 Ruston 3V Air-Cooled as a working proposition, not merely a set of surviving metal parts. Ruston &…
Britain’s stationary engine movement is a broad preservation network rather than a single national organisation. It includes specialist clubs devoted to oil…
A Tangye engine’s type designation is useful, but it is not a trade label such as “pumping engine” or “mill engine”. Tangye used “Type” as part of a factory…
The Musée des Arts et Métiers stands at 60 rue de Réaumur in Paris’s third arrondissement, close to the Sentier and the neighbourhood where industrial…