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The prototype engine installed with others in Maplethorpe Sewage Pumping Station, 1914; converted to deisel in the 1970's and scrapped 1982.
Details
A .1/8 scale museum display quality model of an 80hp Crossley single cylinder open crank gas engine with variable admission of circa 1914
built by A. Walshaw No.382 with seperate waterjacketed cylinder head and cylinder 2in. bore x 3in. stroke, counter-balanced crankshaft with three main bearings with wick-type oil boxes, spoked flywheel with barring gear ring and spoked belt pulley, gear driven camshaft with three plunger oil pump and pipework, gear driven governor and linkage that varies the inlet valve opening, cam and rocker operated exhaust valve, cam and pushrod operated inlet valve, eccentric driven make and break and dummy magneto, exhaust pipe and silencer, inlet manifold with main gas and air control valves, water piping, underfloor mounted gas regulator and coil, finished in dark green with red lining and mounted on a simulated black and white tiled floor with hand rails and barring wheel -- 14 x 28in. (35.5 x 71cm.) Display base.
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built by A. Walshaw No.382 with seperate waterjacketed cylinder head and cylinder 2in. bore x 3in. stroke, counter-balanced crankshaft with three main bearings with wick-type oil boxes, spoked flywheel with barring gear ring and spoked belt pulley, gear driven camshaft with three plunger oil pump and pipework, gear driven governor and linkage that varies the inlet valve opening, cam and rocker operated exhaust valve, cam and pushrod operated inlet valve, eccentric driven make and break and dummy magneto, exhaust pipe and silencer, inlet manifold with main gas and air control valves, water piping, underfloor mounted gas regulator and coil, finished in dark green with red lining and mounted on a simulated black and white tiled floor with hand rails and barring wheel -- 14 x 28in. (35.5 x 71cm.) Display base.
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