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The Jonathan Minns Collection of Engineered and Other Models

22 September 2015 | starting at 13:00 BST

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80 lots available

A MODEL OF A BISSHOP'S ROTARY SWASH-PLATE ENGINE,

A BOILER-MAKERS MODEL OF A LOCOMOTIVE BOILER, with 209 fire-tubes, shown prior to riveting, made circa 1865,

A CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF A FOUR-PILLAR STEEPLE ENGINE, built in Westmorland, circa 1820,

An inverted single cylinder vertical steam engine,

AN EARLY SMALL, FULL-SIZED VERTICAL FOUR-PILLAR ENGINE, Built circa 1840 to drive a coffee mill in the City of London,

A MODEL OF A VERTICAL, TWIN TRIPLE EXPANSION, GENERATING ENGINE, built by it's inventor Sir William Wrestler, circa 1885,

A PATENT MODEL OF A VERTICAL STEAM FEED PUMP, single cylinder, 'Weir' type, stamped on valve chest with "Lion" Automatic Valve Gear, 1948,

A FOUR PILLAR VERTICAL MODEL ENGINE, with Watt's parallel motion, constructed and presented by E. Jekyll, (late of the Grenadier Guards),

A SMALL, FULL-SIZED VERTICAL 'A-FRAME' ENGINE, Built by Messrs H. O. and A. Robinson, Milwall Works, London, 1846,

A SMALL, FULL-SIZED 'A-FRAME' VERTICAL ENGINE, circa 1860,

A LOWNE'S PATENT ATMOSPHERIC SUCTION-FLAME ENGINE,

A GERMAN MODEL HORIZONTAL HOT AIR ENGINE, circa 1895,

A BING TINPLATE HORIZONTAL HOT AIR ENGINE, circa 1930,

A twin cylinder horizontal duplex engine room auxiliary feed pump, by Worthington Simpson Newark England,

A Twin cylinder horizontal duplex engine room auxiliary feed pump

A SMALL, FULL-SIZED, SINGLE CYLINDER HORIZONTAL ENGINE "NUGGET", built by William Brown, to drive machine tools via line shafting, Preston, circa 1850,

A STUART MODEL HORIZONTAL MILL ENGINE, built by Stuart, circa 1920,

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A MODEL OF A SINGLE CYLINDER, HORIZONTAL 'BAYONET FRAME' MILL ENGINE, circa 1880,

A MODEL OF A SINGLE CYLINDER HORIZONTAL MILL ENGINE, built by W. Steven's Model Dockyard, 2 Oldgate, London, circa 1880,

A MODEL OF A CORLISS HORIZONTAL, JET CONDENSING MILL ENGINE, based on the original by Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Company, Bolton, 1980's,

A FRENCH TABLE ENGINE, BUILT BY EUG BOURDON, CIRCA 1850,

A SMALL, FULL-SIZED FOUR-PILLAR TABLE ENGINE, built by W. Cornelius, Engineer of Chard, circa 1840,

AN EARLY, SMALL, FULL-SIZED TABLE ENGINE, circa 1810,

AN INVERTED VERTICAL MODEL OSCILLATING ENGINE, constructed and presented by E. Jekyll (late of the Grenadier Guards),

A MODEL OF A SINGLE CYLINDER TABLE ENGINE, CIRCA 1820,

A SMALL, FULL-SIZED "PENDULOUS" OSCILLATING ENGINE, Constructed and presented by E Jekyll Esq, late Grenadier Guards and father of the world famous English gardener Gertrude Jekyll,

A FINE AND RARE MODEL OF A TWIN CYLINDER PADDLE STEAMER ENGINE BY MAUDSLAY & SON OF CIRCA 1840,

Portfolio of thirty-one engineering drawings, by the famous Scottish Engineer Charles Baird and others, 1800-1850, (31)

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