picture of Lister B11

Hi all,

I have finally got Moo to come round and take a couple of pics of the engine I got running last week.

Have only put the one pic up so far but it is a very large pic/file (1.4Mb). It is not quite finished yet and needs a final top coat of paint and some transfers, but still looks very nice. Will be building the rest of the trolley when my friend has finished re-bushing? the wheels.

Nice restoration though. I do have a soft spot for these early Listers.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

Simon, I didn't even try to look at your picture, with my slow internet connection and the huge file size. Might I humbly suggest resizing the photo and applying some JPEG compression?

Have posted a smaller pic at:

Simon.

O.K. sorry, have now had some off group help from Peter and am able to produce a large 200k pic.

I wish I could compress myself into a mouse hole right now!

thanks to all for helping me to find that section on compressing. It that why it has gone from a .jpg to a .jpeg?

Simon

Nice job, Simon. Sorry about nagging on file size, but it does make your work available to everyone. The oval brass plate on your engine looks interesting - what does it say?

Thanks. I am planning a few pages on the net, with info about this engine. Now I will be able to include more pictures.

The plate on the hopper says: Drake & Fletcher, Engineers, Maidstone-England.

On the 7th February 1924 the engine was despatched from the Lister works to the company above.

My engine came fitted with a sprocket on the crankshaft. There is a later 2 flywheel B at the hop farm, Paddock Wood, Kent, with the same plate on the hopper and the engine is mounted on a large (Horse drawn) orchard sprayer. This is the "Mystifier"

Although the picture looks nice, the thing is in a bit of a sad condition. I believe that a dis-interested gentleman painted it with a toilet brush!

Although Drake & Fletcher made and sold other equipment, The sprocket seems the same to me, and the engine was found on the old boundary of what was a very large orchard. Although I don't have any actual proof, I am assuming that my B came off one of these.

Simon Taylor

work available to everyone. The oval brass plate on