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A.H. McDonald Vaporising Cup Oil Engines

Many years ago, I was with a friend at his parent’s house. It was a couple of years after his father had passed away, and he decided to show me his late Dad’s shed. It was in that shed that I first laid eyes on a McDonald vaporising cup engine...

18 Apr 2024

Foden Wagons on the Western Front WWI

In May 1918, five Australian Army Corps, under the total command of Lieutenant General John Monash as GOC, made history as the Australian Imperial Forces went in to action to achieve some of its greatest victories south of the Somme River, in the...

14 Apr 2024

Draper’s Windmill Gas Engine Reaches 100 years Old!

Drapers’ windmill at Margate, East Kent, UK, is the only working smock mill in Margate. It was built in 1850 by local master millwright, John Holman of Canterbury, but no-one knows who owned this mill up until Mr Holman’s passing in 1855. The...

06 Apr 2024

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Greg Williams’ Tractor Trek

News and Letters

Although I have been around tractors all my life, I only got hooked into collecting them three years ago. A friend suggested I might like to get a tractor going, so I bought one for $800 and fixed it up, and have been doing that ever since. My hobby...

17 Apr 2024

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Sealing the Pipes Water-tight Mephan Ferguson?

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In the article Lives of the Engineers - Mephan Ferguson by Peter S. Evans in TOMM #202, in the section about making steel pipes, there is a drawing of two halves joined together by a flange. How did the engineers seal the pipes together to make...

22 Apr 2024