Measuring cylinder bore wear on a Ruston 3V does not require an expensive dial bore gauge. A careful owner can obtain useful results with a good outside…
Before copper cables stitched the country together, the flicker of an incandescent lamp in a Yorkshire farmhouse or a Cornish village hall was nothing short of…
The Lister 'A' occupies a unique place in the story of British oil engine manufacture, representing an early attempt by R.A. Lister & Company to produce a…
The Bamford 'Junior' was a compact, single-cylinder petrol-paraffin stationary engine built in Uttoxeter during the final months of the First World War.…
The restoration of a National Gas Engine Type X at Forncett Steam Museum shows how a stationary engine can carry an entire industrial story in its castings,…
Blackstone & Co Ltd holds a special place in the story of British stationary engine manufacturing, and few aspects of their catalogue spark as much curiosity…
For more than thirty years, Peter and Rita Forbes have travelled the lanes and byways of southern England with a battered Nikon and a battered notebook,…
The Tangye C Type emerged during a pivotal period when British industrial engineering was transitioning from steam to internal combustion. Manufactured in the…
Bamford Brothers engines occupy an important place in the story of British agricultural machinery. Built in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, these stationary engines…
The First World War changed stationary engines without placing every alteration on a battlefield. Across Britain and the wider Empire, manufacturers were asked…