Hi --
I've had a 1900-ish open crank 7hp Tangye Gas Engine for 20 years.
4'6" single flywheel, very heavy brute. In poor condition, as cast iron had crystallised in places.
Literally dug it out of slurry pit in Wokingham. It had gone into the pit before WW2..... Still got the pix of us lifting it out.
I've got too many toys, so I was trying to find it a caring home. Even put in on here approx 4 years ago. Offered it to TangyeDan. Decided to give it to Paul Evans at Internal Fire as an interesting "before & after" exhibit -- with this being the "before" part of the equation.
Went down to collect it last week. Gone. Lock broken off garage door. Also lost a very unusual '20s National water pump from a combined engine/ pump unit, a Bamford vertical, 3 Listers, a large cast iron engine transporter. & some odd stuff,
Very annoying. I still have one large cast ID plate from the engine, plus the brasses, as they had been removed. Rest is believed to have been weighed in as scrap, straight from the garage. How the hell the thieves pulled out over
2 tons of engines & just walked off with them beats me ......
Sad to see a piece of genuine engine history go this way. Very few really early engines left. A caution to us all ......
Colin