I recently added my congratulations to Mark Rea's thread concerning his first model – a Grasshopper Beam Engine.

In my post, I referred to the Grasshopper engine that originally powered the chain ferry across the River Itchen in Southampton.

It was my further intention to add a picture of that engine, I have one somewhere but, as of writing this, I can't find it! What I did find was a list of references to the Grasshopper Engine in the pages of Model Engineer. Here it is:

It was easier to add the list as a scan than to retype it in this post! There may be other references since 1958. If I can find the picture of the Southampton engine, I will add it to this thread.

I've chosen to start a new thread rather than adding to Mark's thread in the hope that it will be easier for the search function to find the information.

Mark refers to his engine as 'Elmer's Grasshopper'; most of the references I have are to the 'Easton-Amos Grasshopper'. Comments welcome.

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!