The Great Dorset Steam Fair

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Stationary Engines

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Gentlemen,

I hope this of interest to you, I have uploaded some pictures of my main hobby, the pictures show the variety of engines at the GDSF last week which I attended as an exhibitor.

 

Martin P

Philips Sterling Engine

Lister CS Pumping set.

My own Hamworthy Compressor set

Hornsby Ackroyd Hot Bulb

Petter S Type

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 06/09/2016 13:09:06

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Interesting stuff. Lovely old Hornsby indeed. Were any of the engines running?

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

I always aspired to own a Petter M, got as far as a Fairbanks Z before moving to the dark side of steam.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

The main prerequisite of getting a pass to display is that you have to run your engine from 10:00 till 17:00 every day of the five days and they check up daily and record your running time, if you stop for no apparent reason for long times the chance of you being invited the next year is unlikely.

Martin P

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Good pics! Thanks for sharing.

Dave

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Nice photos thanks for putting them up.

Any connection between the Hamworthy Compressor set and Hamworthy Boilers?

Edited By V8Eng on 06/09/2016 19:16:09

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Most likely there are various divisions in uk, whilst at the rally I was talking to two gentlemen about my set and it turned out they both worked for Hamworthy but didnt know each other as they were at different sites.

Martin P

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