Model of a beam engine geared to a workshop made by ICI apprentices at the company's Engineering Training Centre in Widnes, 1981. The model was intended to portray a workshop in about 1900.

This model was completed in 1981 by apprentice fitter-turners at the ICI Training Centre in Widnes. It was made over several years, with apprentices from each year group contributing to a different part. The model was made as part of the apprentices’ machine-tool training. Each component was machined from solid metal, rather than being moulded and cast. This gave the apprentices the opportunity to hone and demonstrate their skill with machine tools, while contributing to a project that could serve as an informal advertisement for the ICI Training Centre when exhibited at open days or fairs. The Training Centre in Widnes trained four categories of apprentice: boiler makers, who worked mostly with sheet metal; electricians; instrument artificers, who made gauges and measuring instruments; and fitter-turners, who made parts on lathes and other machine tools, as well as fitting pipes, pumps, and gear boxes. The 1980 cohort of apprentices who were responsible for the workshop part of the model had some choice over which tools to model, and had to research what their chosen tools would have looked like in 1900, when the model is supposed to be set. The apprentices then had to work out how to make miniature machine tools which not only looked era-appropriate, but which could move when connected to a drive belt.