Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine

Model, scale 1:6, of a single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine with Corliss valve gear, four metal components, and one cardboard box, by model-makers T. and C.J. Coates of London, of a prototype by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, United Kingdom, 1898.

The horizontal engine this model represents was made by Messrs. Musgrave of Bolton for driving a jute textile mill in Kolkota, India; For the full-size engine, the cylinder is 19 in. diam. by 36 in. stroke, and the fly-wheel, which is 12 ft. in diam., weighs 5.75 tons. The power was transmitted from the fly-wheel by eleven ropes 1.25 in. diam., which drove the power transmission of the various factory floors. The model itself was by the Coates brothers, who were commissioned to build a number of extremely fine models for the Science Museum.