A model of a Marshall single cylinder horizontal engine in glass case

Made:: 1970-1978

A model of a Marshall single cylinder horizontal engine in glass case, a set of patterns used in its making and a set of associated photographs used to assist it being made.

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Category:: Motive Power

Object Number:: 1997-2234

Materials:: steel, brass, glass and wood

Measurements:: overall: 10.0394 x 10.2362 x 11.811 in.; 255 x 260 x 300 mm

type:: high pressure steam engine, wooden patterns and model

credit:: C. Stiff

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Model, of a Marshall Class MP single cylinder steam engine

A model of a Marshall Class MP single cylinder horizontal engine used for electrical power and lighting generation c.1896. Model built 1970-1978.

This is a fine amateur's 1:10 scale model of a Marshall class MP, single-cylinder, horizontal steam engine from about 1896. It was made by Charles G. Stiff, formerly chief engineer at Rustington Convalescent Home, Sussex, where the real steam engine drove a dynamo to provide electric light and power for the building. Stiff had maintained the machine as a young man and had access to it when he started working on the model in 1970. Some of the wooden patterns and cores made by Stiff, and used by him to make the castings for the model, are shown alongside.