Among the most fascinating artefacts preserved in Peter and Rita Forbes's extensive archive are the engineering drawings produced by Petters Ltd of Yeovil…
The phrase "half-breed" was workshop slang for any engine that mated a gas-fired prime mover to a steam boiler on a single bedplate. The machines appeared in a…
Australian museums hold some of the most evocative industrial machinery anywhere in the world. From the towering steam engines at Sydney's Powerhouse to the…
A corroded crankcase stamped with a Birmingham maker's mark, a flywheel with hammer-finish paint flaking under the thumb, a brass oil cup that still unscrews…
For much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a small stationary engine could be found in almost every kind of working yard: a flour mill in…
The 1906 Middleton engine represents a fascinating chapter in the history of stationary power plants, and its governing system offers particular lessons for…
The partnership of Ashworth & Parker occupies a quiet but fascinating corner of nineteenth-century British engineering. Operating from foundries in the…
The story of how stationary engines first entered British horticulture is, at its heart, a story of Victorian ambition and glass. From the 1850s onward,…
R A Lister and Company of Dursley, Gloucestershire produced engines for longer than many of the firms now considered their peers, and the company stamped those…
The Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry occupies a distinctive place in the memory of British engineering. The original museum closed in the late 1990s,…