Kim flagged up this interesting little ebay item to me:-
Nick,
Not knowing much about Hot Air engines I got the impression that it was a very modern replica and wasn't all it seemed. don't you think the enamal work is to fresh for a start. The seller may have been warned off !
Mart> Kim flagged up this interesting little ebay item to me:-
Well, I certainly don't go for the tale of it supplying water for a large Victorian house, an engine of this size would be hard pressed to shift enough to provide one person with a morning wash and brush up. But the engine itself looks right enough to me, probably one of the smaller Heinrici models and likely to fetch a fair bit on its own. Did it start life on that wood burner? Probably not but it makes a nice display. The somewhat garish paint job is acknowledged as non original.
One would hope that bidders ready to part with something approaching £1K would know what they were looking at.
On Ebay I doubt it based on Lister D prices etc
Martin P
Nick H wrote:
Having said that the listing says it supplied a cistern so presumably could have been running almost constantly.
sponix
"s--p--o--n--i--x" wrote
Even to keep a cistern filled you'd be looking at a 6" bore Rider-Ericcson or similar, these tiddlers were restricted to driving something like a 'zimmer fontaine', ie what might now be called an indoor water feature.
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