Sanderson Beam Engine

Copyright is very definitely intended to stop people photocopying/scanning things and giving away free copies.

You are unlikely to get in trouble for something that is no longer available, but where someone is still selling the plan each copy you give away potentially deprives them of a paying customer -and they will have paid the original designer for the right to sell those plans.

Please don't use this website to distribute pirate drawings (ours or any other publisher) - the internet threatens to make the sale of model engineering plans unviable and in the long term the result could be that many rare designs are lost for ever.

Neil

Neil

Then I stand corrected. IT seems you guys are more knowledgeable about the law than I. I withdraw my offer to share what I have for free. You can go buy them from the copyright owner. Life was so much more friendly in the 20th century...

I just bought a very nice Sanderson Beam engine of Peter Wares grandson on eBay. I posted a video on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/Mb6riiwkRRE

I also bought the planes from Blackgates.

I have done extensive research on the background of the Sanderson Beam engine. and have several links that might be of interest. There is a version of the full size engine in Germany Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück and another Model from a German model maker von Lothar Matrian. There are pictures of Eckart Kerchers models as well.

http://www.eckartkercher.de/index_seiten/frerichs.htm

One original UK full size engine was at the Frerichs Wadsworth, Springfield Mental Hospital.

Ther german full size is know as J. Frerichs & Co.: Dampfmaschine

http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/maschinen5/dampfdet53041.shtml

**LINK**

I'll try to attach some pictures. eckart kercher

The , Osnabrück Museum is now researching how what we call the Sanderson Beam engine ended up in Germany.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osnabr%C3%BCck_-_Museum_Industriekultur-_Dampfmaschinen_02_ies.jpg

You'll notice small differences between the German and UK engine. It is said that the original model was from a plate in Blackies publication “The Engineer and Machinist's Assistant”, 1840s. H. Clarkson & Son had designed their model after Plate XVII in volume 2

Adam’s set me on the path to a Blackies publication “The Engineer and

Bill, on several occasions you use the name "Wadsworth" but the old Springfield hospital was the Surrey Lunatic Asylum located in Wandsworth and the engine in question made by Maudslay, Sons & Field. Not sure if it is still in the science museum.

Possibly three engines existed, the one shown on the Plates, The Springfield Hospital one and the one in Germany. As two out of the three founders of J. Frerichs & Co were English it is possible they had something to do with similar engines being in both England and Germany. All have unique featured but they also seem to share a lot of features particularly in the beam/column and brace.

Edited By JasonB on 05/05/2019 07:57:27