A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine 1824 • Stuart • £15.99 • (D) Reset from an original of 1824, this is a decidedly interesting review of the stationary steam engine, written at a time when it was just starting to develop along modern lines. The author was an engineer, so the text is knowledgeable, as well as readable, and covers not just Newcomen, Trevithick, Watt and their engines, it also includes details and drawings of a number of fascinating engines which never appeared. A number of these are 'rotary' and appear to anticipate designs 150 years later. 190 pages. 48 engraved drawings. Paperback. Nonsuch Publishing Add to shopping basket

The Non Rotative Beam Engine Kelly • SPECIAL PRICE £ 4.95 • (E) The Non Rotative, or Cornish, Beam Engine represented the first successful harnessing of the power of steam, and speeded up the Industrial Revolution by enabling coal and ore mines to be effectively drained. Subsequently these giant engines played a major role in the cleansing of London and other major cities around the world, as well as in drainage. They were the forebear of all steam powered machines, and the largest prime movers ever built. Initially developed by Newcomen and then improved by others, notably Watt, Bull and Woolf, the Non Rotative Beam Engine was remarkably long lived, some examples remaining in use for over 150 years. In this fascinating book Maurice Kelly describes the background, development and operation of Cornish engines in terms which will appeal to the technically minded and layman alike. Not forgotten is the development of the associated boilers, and the pumps which these imposing engines drove. Finally there is a guide to surviving examples. High quality 64 page, A4 size paperback, with colour cover, and over 70 historic drawings and B & W photographs. Camden Add to shopping basket

Cornish Engines & The Men Who Handled Them Trounson • £ 4.99 • (H) Now in its third edition, this booklet records, slightly edited, a talk given by John Trounson to the Royal Institution of Cornwall on the 10th December 1966. Mr Trounson was a mining engineer in Cornwall all his life and had been interested in the mines, and especially their engines, from a young age. Both amusing and informative, the 44 pages of this publication will give considerable please time after time - and also tell you how the ‘bob’ (or beam) was mounted, as well as give you much other information on Cornish engines. 4 pages of photos and 2 of drawings. Paperback. Trevithick Society Add to shopping basket

The Evolution of the Heat Engine Kolin • £ 18.05 • (A) Full described in the “Hot Air Engines” section, this book also covers the development of the steam and I.C. engine, as well as a huge amount more. Put simply, if you are reading this section, buy a copy of this book! Add to shopping basket

Agnes, a 500 Horse Power Corliss Valve Steam Engine Southworth • £ 3.95 • (G) “Agnes”, the subject of this book, is a Tandem Compound Corliss Valve Engine built by Pollit & Wigzell preserved at Markham Grange near Doncaster. Here you have considerable information on her working life, and especially her construction and technical details, as the book is the result of notes taken by the author when researching the model he built. Whilst this book doesn’t include complete drawings, anyone with an interest in the stationary steam engine will find this a fascinating and very good value read. 18 A4 format pages. 24 photos and drawings. Paperback. Southworth Add to shopping basket

The Beam Engines of Elsecar, Leawood & Middleton Top Southworth • £ 6.25 • (G) Here Peter Southworth turns from the horizontal winding engines of his other books, to two pumping, and one winding, beam engines - all preserved. Elsecar is a Newcomen type of 1795, Leawood is an 1845 Cornish engine pumping for the Cromford Canal, whilst Middleton Top is a rotative beam engine of 1829 which was used to haul trains up the Middleton Incline of The Cromford and High Peak Railway. All are close to each other in the Peak District and represent the development of the beam engine well. Usual good text, photos, drawings and diagrams. 42 A4 format pages. Softcover and published by the author. Add to shopping basket

Pleasley Pit and its Steam Winding Engines Southworth • £ 5.50 • (G) Books don’t come much better than this if you are interested in stationary steam engines. Here you have the history of the two winding engines at Pleasley Pit in Derbyshire, one from Markham & Co. Ltd., and the other from Lilleshall Co. Ltd., both engines surviving and being preserved. Plenty of drawings, possibly enough to enable the clever amongst you to model one of these superb machines, detail photos and a knowledgeable text. 36 A4 format pages. Softcover. Published by the author. Add to shopping basket

Stationary Steam Engine Makers Vol. 1 Watkins - cat. Woolrich • £26.99 • (B) Add to shopping basket

Stationary Steam Engine Makers Vol. 2 Watkins - cat. Woolrich • £26.99 • (B) Along with George Watkin’s photographic collection, from which the photographic books above were created, are 375 files of illustrations and other material relating to stationary steam engine builders, mostly British but some overseas. Gathered from these files, and presented here are a selection of advertisements, letters, MS notes, photographs, printed and trade material for numerous manufacturers, in alphabetical order: A - J in Vol. 1, K - Y in Vol. 2. Interesting books in their own right, but also excellent reference sources. 176 pages each. Around 150 B & W illustrations per volume. Hardback. Landmark Publishing. Add to shopping basket

Fenland Pumping Engines Hinde • £24.99 • (A) This is a history and ‘gazeteer’ of the various steam and diesel engines which drained the Fens, and which keep them drained. The engines, engine houses and their history are told, many are illustrated and all can be found on the numerous maps. Whilst this book stands very well as a work in its own right, it is also an excellent companion to Hill’s The Drainage of the Fens in the ‘History of Engineering’ section. 224 pages. Hardback. Landmark Publishing. Add to shopping basket

Model Steam Turbines 1929 • Harrison • £ 5.95 • (H) Interesting little book covering both the theory of steam turbines, and how to model them. Useful information, not easy to find. 62 pages, 70 illustrations, smaller format paperback. TEE Publishing Add to shopping basket

Stationary Engine Magazine on Model Making Mason • £ 8.95 • (E) Around two-thirds of this book are devoted to the construction of a 1/2 scale model of a Fairbanks Morse Eclipse engine from an (American) set of castings - full details of these are in the book. Other sections cover making a Lister Grinding Mill, as well as other stationary engine models. Whilst not a conventional 'blow-by-blow' construction manual, there is a huge amount of useful information here for those who wish to construct working models of vintage stationary IC engines. 62 very well produced and illustrated pages. Paperback. SEM Add to shopping basket

Internal Fire - the internal combustion engine, 1673-1900 Cummins • £ 34.65 • (A) New, updated edition of this definitive history of the early IC engine. If you have read either Diesel’s Engine or The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins (below) you will know what this book is like - wall to wall quality and information. Starting with gunpowder engines of the 17th century, proceeding via brief looks at the steam and hot air engine (for their technology) you come up to the whole series of machines that led (more or less) to today’s internal combustion engine. The whole story, or perhaps saga, is very well told in an erudite, but wholly readable, style. And this is the last printing. So buy this great book whilst you can! Around 350 pages heaving with drawings and including 88 pages with 103 pictures/photos. Hardbound. Add to shopping basket

Diesel’s Engine Vol.1 From conception to 1918 Cummins • £ 45.00 • (A) I never thought the day would come when I would foam at the mouth over a book on diesel engines, but this title really is something else! On one level it is a technical history of the development of diesel engines in Europe and America up to the end of WWI, but on another, it is a biography of Rudolf Diesel himself. Erudite, highly readable and very well produced. Buy this book! 752 pages. 100s of photographs and drawings. Hardbound. Carnot Press Add to shopping basket

Diesels for the First Stealth Weapon: Submarine Power 1902-1945 Cummins • £46.95 • (A) In effect, this is the long awaited Vol. 2 of Diesel’s Engine, even if it does deal with just one particular application. As has often happened it was military needs that led to rapid development of an idea, here the fact that the diesel cycle engine was ideally suited for powering submarines on the surface, and charging their batteries, so the large, compact diesel engine came into being. Essentially Lyle Cummins covers the subject chronologically then nationally, mainly the European maritime nations, plus Japan and the U.S.A., although Switzerland plays an important part; it may have never had a navy, but it was home to Sulzer. As with all of Lyle’s books, this is that rare combination - erudite and highly readable. Over 750 pages, with 450 drawings and photos. Hardbound. Carnot Press Add to shopping basket

Gas Engine Construction Parsell & Weed • 1900 • £ 10.65 • (D) This is a great book for IC engine enthusiasts, especially if they want to build their own engine. There is a brief section on types of engine, then the balance of the book is, effectively a construction manual for a one-lung engine with a 21/2” x 4” stroke cylinder (and a nasty pair of 14” flywheels). It really is all here, down to making the patterns. And even if you don’t build the engine, the information itself will be of use in restoring an existing engine. 300 pages, heaving with photos, drawings etc. Paperback. Lindsay Publications Add to shopping basket

Sparks and Flames Mackeand • £ 13.15 • (E) “The internal combustion engine has had a long, and often checkered history, but few things seem to have given more trouble than the ignition of fuel in the cylinder”. Here the author details these problems, and the many and varied ways that were used to try and overcome them. The story extends from the mid 1600s to the present day, but in practice the author has not taken it much beyond the first quarter of the twentieth century. After an outline history of internal combustion, the specific chapters on ignition cover: Flames and Valves, Hot Tubes and Surface, Sparks, Low Tension Electricity, High Tension Electricity, The Energy of Ignition, Compression Ignition, Theories of Ignition and Some Practical Aspects. Also included are a Table of Chronology and a Bibliography for those interested in delving further into the subject. I found this a fascinating book, and I’m not a real I.C. man. A tremendous read and a required buy by an I.C. engine enthusiast. 168 page paperback, well illustrated, mainly with engravings and drawings. Tyndar Press Add to shopping basket

Joseph Day 1855-1946 and the development of the Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine Torrens • £ 3.95 • (H) In 1891 British engineer Joseph Day patented the “crank-chamber scavenge two-stroke cycle gas engine”, and by 1892 his works in Bath were producing such engines with only three moving parts - in other words he invented the modern two stroke engine. However, the man himself is almost completely lost to history, and this well produced book looks at both him and his invention(s). 24 illustrated pages. Softcover. Bath Industrial Heritage Trust Add to shopping basket

The Lister CS Story Edgington • £12.00 • (F) A new title from David Edgington is always worth having, and this covering one of the best loved of stationary IC engines is a corker. It covers the history of the best known of all Lister’s designs, from their introduction and into preservation, using a host of contemporary factory illustrations, plus colour photographs of restored and working examples running today. 48 A 4 format pages. Softcover. Published by the author. Add to shopping basket

The Lister D Story Edgington • £11.50 • (F) Perhaps because it was produced in large numbers over a long time, the Lister D is a favourite restoration project. To the untutored eye they all look the same, but this history of the type makes it very clear there were considerable variations over the 38 years of production. The 52 pages of this book really heave with information, drawings and photos. Paperback. Vintage Reprint Services Add to shopping basket

Lister D-Type Restoration McBurney • £10.95 • (E) If you have managed to find an old D-Type to restore, you are going to find this useful. The first chapter is a ‘Buyer’s Guide’, but thereafter you are into solid, step-by-step, restoration all reprinted from the pages of Stationary Engine magazine. 66 pages full of illustrations, many in colour. Softcover. Kelsey Publishing Add to shopping basket

Stationary Engine Magazine on Open Crank Restoration Ruston-Hornsby 5hp IP McBurney • £15.95 • (B) This A4 book reprints a series from SEM cataloguing the restoration of a Ruston-Hornsby 5hp IP open crank engine by author Nigel McBurney. Whilst the book is about restoring one particular design, it encompasses the principals of restoration on all open crank engines, so will appeal to all engine restorers. 129 pages crammed with a vast number of colour photos, and a few B&W ones. Paperback. SEM Add to shopping basket

Recent Developments in Large Gas-Engine Design 1909 • Allen • £ 5.30 • (G) If you thought a large IC engine was that rusty hulk you saw on a flat-bed trailer at your local vintage rally, think again. This book, reprinting articles from 1906 issues of Cassier’s Magazine contains details of British, Continental and American gas engines which have been on steroids - how about one with a bore of 42” and a stroke of 60” running at 50 to 75 rpm and developing around 3000 hp? And there are larger machines in this book! These engines represent an intermediate stage between steam and highly efficient IC engines, or electric power, for industry. Lots of photos, drawings and technical info on construction, layout etc. Fascinating! 64 page paperback. Lindsay Publications. Add to shopping basket

Gas-Engines & Producer Gas Plants 1905 • Mathot • £ 12.00 • (D) A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas-engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer-gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer-gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines. Which sums up this interesting book, probably published as a guide for anyone considering buying one of the new fangled gas-engines. Good solid historic information in 314 heavily illustrated pages, plus 9 fascinating pages of advertisements. Paperback. Lindsay Publications. Add to shopping basket

Stationary and Marine Oil Engines 1932 • Petters Limited • £13.00 • (C) This is a reprint of a fabulous publication, which Petters Limited issued in 1932, covering stationary and marine oil engines, generating and pumping sets, as well as “some illustrations and particulars of the Westland Aircraft”. There is a huge amount of detail about the Company, and its products up to the thirties, including the (today) alarmingly named ‘Atomic’ range of diesel engines, with many photographs and drawings. 172 larger format pages, all full of interest. This is very highly recommended! Paperback. David Edgington. VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE! Add to shopping basket

Beautiful Engines Grayson • £ 34.45 • (A) The engines in this book are beautiful - so is the book. The subject is :”Treasures of the Internal Combustion Century” and thirty three early stationary IC engines are described in detail. The majority are of American design and manufacture, but from Great Britain you have Crossley, and Lenoir, Otto and Langen, Daimler and Maybach and Diesel from Europe. Amongst the others you have Regan, Pacific, Best, The Springfield, Olds, Samson, International Harvester etc.. Each make is described in some detail and illustrated with excellent photos, both archive and of preserved engines, drawings etc. The production is superb. This is a book anyone interested in stationary engines should have. 112 larger format pages. Around 120 colour photographs, plus numerous black and white photos and drawings. Hardbound. Devereux Books. Add to shopping basket