I first bought this one back in 2013 - a finely made, beautifully proportioned old engine it spent the next year on display up at the house. It subsequently sold to a long time customer of ours - a skilled engineer, highly knowledgeable on stationary engines, who carried out the superb, sympathetic restoration shown opposite. Words below are from 2014, the pictures were taken in recent days. An old horizontal engine, built in 1899 according the brass plate on the well-figured wooden base with many features typical of the period, including fish-bellied connecting rod, knurled gland nut and elegantly shaped crank webs and guide bars. Another of those things that Mrs P took a shine to when it first arrived last year, it's been up at the house since, only recently displaced in her affections by a steam boat. Fickle woman...
