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Martin King 2	28/10/2022 11:31:39
1129 forum posts 1 photos	Hi All, In yesterdays auction haul was this pair of really small very well made model steam engines: I think the one in the dome is a wobbler type but is the pother one a marine engine? Help please. The domed engine has a small funnel in the chimney! Cheers, Martin
Hopper	28/10/2022 12:52:59
7881 forum posts 397 photos	Those certainly are minute. But I am sure they took more than two minutes to make, which was what I thought when I saw the headline! Exquisite little gems to be sure. Yes the one certainly looks to be a wobbler. I would expect the funnel would be to fill the tiny boiler with a tiny dram of hot water. And the other does look like a vertical marine engine with the small flywheel. Sometimes called a bar-type engine or something like that due to the cylinder being stood on top of three or four round bars rather than a cast pedestal like a typical Stuart Models vertical engine. A lovely little haul from the auction. Well done!
JasonB	28/10/2022 15:36:48
25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles	I've not seen the second one but there were a lot made along similar lines in the 20s and 30s for pond boats by the likes of Bassett Lowke, Gamages, Stevens Model Dockyard and even Stuarts had their Simplex which is quite close but had 4 columns not 3.

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