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One of Museum’s rarest engines is the “Wilson” built in Aberdeen Scotland. There are only around a dozen left in the world. They run on kerosene, owing to the scarcity and cost of petrol in that era. Starting was a…
This motor was produced in Western Australia by one of two sources: Kays Engineering Pty Ltd of 38 Catherine Street, Subiaco or the proprietor of the Overgaard’s Boatshed in Claremont. The advertising provided by Kays Engineering suggests that this company…
The little Villiers Mk10 on display was manufactured in Ballarat Vic. It is driving an Onga 1” piston pump. The Mk10 is a simple, neat and compact engine with few moving parts. Villiers Engineering of Ballarat started producing Mk10 small…
The SUNSHINE family of engines were manufactured in Australia by Hugh V. McKay at the Sunshine Harvester Works at Sunshine in Victoria. The engines were made in a 2-stroke configuration in the 1910s & 1920s, coming in a 3hp, 5hp,…
The SUNDIAL family of engines were manufactured in Australia by Sunshine Harvester Works in Sunshine, Victoria. They were made from 1926 to 1949 for use on farms to operate everything from dairy apparatus to generators and pumps. They came in…
The YWAH engine is a compressor engine, based on the normal 2-cycle, air-cooled diesel 2YWA engine. One cylinder was replaced by an air-cooled single stage compressor. Normally utilised to supply up to 350psi of air to a receiver for starting…
The model NA was produced by Ronaldson Bros & Tippett of Ballarat Victoria. It is an air-cooled version of their popular model “N”. With further development, its horsepower was increased into a model NHA 3-4hp, NVA 5½hp, NRA 5-8hp. The…
Ronaldson Bros and Tippett was an agriculture manufacturer in Ballarat, Victoria. At its peak, it was the largest engine builder in Australia, bringing out the model N engine in 1927 with a 1¼hp and 2½hp version. These were subsequently developed…
The pump on display was popular in the early 1900s for recovering sunken ships and transferring a ship’s water for ballast. The pump was extremely simple in construction, made of cast iron with no pistons, rods, cylinders, cranks, or flywheels.…
The portable milking machine on display was used on small farms with 1 – 4 cows. It originally had a Villiers petrol engine but has been converted to an electric motor to help show the functions of the parts, that…