whatisit? on ebay

I collect hot air engines but I don't think the engine mentioned is one. I did own a small engine made about 1905 that seems vaguely like the one displayed. I sold my engine because gas these days isn't the same for running small engines.

-- Dave Croft Warrington England

Peter

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Hi ,I just had a chat with Bob Sear about that engine. He agrees with me that it isn't a Hot Air engine. If you look at the middle picture you can see a small tube under the middle of the cylinder. This could be the ignition flame for a small low compression gas engine. The one I owned ran the same way with the ignition flame being sucked in as the piston passed a small hole near the flame. Mine was on the side but this could be underneath.

-- Dave Croft Warrington England

Gentlemen, I can almost certainly identify this as a Carrette Gas engine, I have a slightly larger water cooled, hot tube, rotary valve version of the same period. I also have paperwork, somewhere, out of a catalogue of the period showing pictures of mine and the Ebay engine. Carrette where a Belgium/French company which made toys etc of which these are.

Martin P

Photos of which I shall put up in the usual place

Those were the lines I was thinking along, although, if it was continental would it bear a Pat number? More likely Bvte or DRGM. ISTR the people who made the Leek engine originally produced something like this.

Might be amongst the adverts in the Vol1 Model Engineer ?

Peter

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Price took a bit of a leap in the last hour of bidding!

I am not going to complain :-))