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At a loss as to age/date or subject - Steam Engine
« on: Tuesday 16 December 14 19:46 GMT (UK) »
Attaching whole photo which includes a 2mm grey stiff card mount.  The photo itself is approx. 4.25" by 6+".  Cardboard takes it to almost 8" x 10".  Can anyone date this please?  Or have a bash at identifying the contraption??  Pretty sure its Scottish, probably Inverness-shire.  Marked as 'Fleming Photographer' stamped in purple in corner.  Some kind of light bulb visible? Really have no idea of what/who it could be though.  Thanks folks.
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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 December 14 20:13 GMT (UK) »
If no-one here knows what it is, you might get some help from the Anson Engine Museum in Poynton, Cheshire - see http://www.enginemuseum.org/index.html

They are the only specialist engine museum in the country, and have a large collection of engines of all sorts. The museum itself is closed for the winter, but as far as I know the team behind it will still be answering emails etc.

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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 December 14 21:10 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Arthur.  Have come across a photo dated 1920 with a marking on it of Fleming Photographer, Dundee & Inverness;  so going on that I presume the above photo is earlier as it has no place names added to it, think it will definitely be Inverness, pre 1920 in that case.  Always helps narrow it down a wee bit :-)
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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 December 14 22:03 GMT (UK) »
My guess is that its a stationary steam engine - 

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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 17 December 14 05:41 GMT (UK) »
Impossible to date the subject himself, but I can tell you the photo mount is Edwardian.

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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 17 December 14 05:43 GMT (UK) »
It may be a steam engine but it's certainly not a common or garden one.  I've never seen a cylinder with such massive concentric steel housings as this one has.  The engineering is of the kind seen in large machine tools and the breech mechanisms of naval guns.

The little tower with the two balls (foreground, RH side) is a centrifugal speed governor, common on stationary steam engines.

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 17 December 14 16:07 GMT (UK) »
Shaw & McGillivray (Daviot & Dunlichity, Dores, Inverness & Nairn)
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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject - Steam Engine
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 17 December 14 17:59 GMT (UK) »
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Re: At a loss as to age/date or subject - Steam Engine
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 18 December 14 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Dating difficult as this type of engine spanned many years, as did the type of clothing worn by the engineer/mechanic. If China says the mount is Edwardian then it is, providing it's the original one.
The part you can see is the cylinder, steam supplied by one pipe (the vertical one, I think) and the exhaust going out of the larger one through the wall. A large cylinder, as has been said, with a cover behind it for protection and driving the large flywheel on the left which in turn has a belt driving something unseen.
What it was driving is impossible to say but, given the diameter of the single cylinder (20"?) it would be something fairly hefty. Unless it was a multiple drive, as in a cotton mill where many looms were driven off a single shaft.

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