Category Machinery

This attractive West Australian-built engine was manufactured by Ed and Laurie Metcalf (hence ELMET) at 338-340 Beaufort Street, East Perth.  It is a 2-stroke engine typically used in wooden, clinker-built boats (often referred to as “putt-putts”). Mainly exported to Malaya…

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. The Mk10 is a simple, neat and compact engine with few moving parts. Villiers Engineering of Ballarat started producing Mk10 small air-cooled engines from 1953 and the model was…

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.…