what a lovely set up,equipment built to last a lifetime,and made in England what more could one ask? must be a pleasure to use, where are you in somerset?i'm only up the road in Bristol,thanks for posting
Robin Bell 2 weeks ago This was the originally main compressor for starting Large 3 cylinder Gas engine with a 8 ton fly wheel ! running at 180 rpm connected to storm water pumps near Tower bridge ,Maguire street ,London.S.E.1 .All gas engines ,pumps,water hydraulics , vacuum pumps and compressors were removed and replaced with automatic starting High Voltage Pumps in the late 80s early 90s Reply
Great Engine last seen this run back in the 80's when I work at Shad Thames P.S love showing this engine running to enthusiasts And I think I show this running to whom remove it.
That thing would run for the rest of all our lives combined! Forget the junk they sell today, this is the real stuff, built like a tank and will outlive everything! Love antique engines and machinery in action.
Simply put, around here (NE US of A) that's a buzz-saw. Back when, many were run by belt off PTO drum on tractor. Many had a sliding log-carriage- preferable to the free-form deal shown, IMO. Betch they made lots of "Lefty"s.
This is a Akroyd Cycle engine this type of engine was very popular in Scandinavia and and colder climates much under rated there were a number of successful tractors built using this type of engine the Lanz Bulldog for one built into the fifties plus a number of other makers, the advantage is it can run on almost any fuel from coal dust to heavy oil, the modern so called dicsel engine holds much in common with this engine, the only thing Diesel had to patent was high compression.
Herbert Akroyd Stuart, the instigator of compression ignition engines, like this beauty, moved from Merry England to Fremantle in West Australia for health reasons. He began an engineering works, Saunders and Stuart down near the waterfront, the buildings remained till the 1980s when Alan Bond bought them and demolished them for redevelopment. I remember the company operating, but dont know if Stuart was still alive then.
That's completely wrong. Akroyd used a hot bulb system for ignition and by far lower compression pressures than Diesel did. This is why the Akroyd engine is not comparable to the Diesel engine.
