Wolseley Stationary Engines 1909 - 1975.

David Edgington has been researching Wolseley history, and the full range of engines, for around 30 years. This book, around 60 pages with over 100 illustrations, is the culmination of that research and has been painstakingly put together during the last 10 months. It covers Style 1 to 4, Alma, Pre-WD, WD1, WD8, WD9, WLB and the air-cooled engines, plus variations such as the Trojan especially supplied as exports to South Africa.

Offer 1

David is sending me the first 10 copies each one personally signed by him (they are already in the post and should reach me next week). These will be available immediately. I receive them at R161.00 each (including bulk postage rates from England) and I will be selling them for the same price (plus local postage if necessary). This is ZAR 55.05 less than an unsigned copy ordered from his website will cost you.

(If you order the book from his website it will cost you UK£ 13-00 plus about £6-00 postage - so £19-00 (or in South African Rand ZAR 216.06) (Tonight's rate)

If you would like to get one of these which will also eventually become collectors items due to them being personally signed then please contact me urgently - remember that there are only 10 signed copies! It's "First Come - First Served" or, "If You Snooze - You Loose"

If you want one then I will supply you with my banking details for you to do a transfer. Please NO CASH payments to me - only transfers to my account (if you do not have "Internet Banking" then you can do it by going into your bank) as I have to transfer this to David and if you give me cash then my bank will charge me "cash handling fees" to deposit this. If anyone is registered with "PayPal", it would be preferred that you pay direct to my PayPal account. (Remember, I'm not making a cent on these so do NOT want to be saddled with bank charges).

Offer 2

I will be bringing in more books after this which will be unsigned and will probably cost approx. R 130.00 each (plus local postage) (that's aboutR86.00 less than ordering from the website).

Jerry Evans
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Sandstone Heritage Trust - News - Stationary Engines

1-Ruston & Hornsby Size 450 Class AP No.127704	2-Massey Harris C34 No.75351	3-1938 Fairbanks-Morse Eclipse  No.808205
4-Ruston & Hornsby PR No.160188	5-Frank Hartop H No.8391	6-Cushman Cub R30 No.A148564
7-1924 Petter Junior No.53711	8-1920 Russell Newbery No.801	9-1948 International Harvester LB & MH4 Grinder. No.LBA137817
10-Massey Harris Type 2 No.6K3315	11-1926 Fairbanks-Morse Z No.659816	12-1945 Fairbanks-Morse Z Style O   No.867453
13-Lister Sheep Shearing Set   No.30AHK2	14-1919 Fairbanks-Morse Z  No.396848	15-1941 Fairbanks-Morse Z Style C  No.827673
16-Ruston & Hornsby 1X Class HR   No.248520	17-1960 Wolseley (Vetsak) WD8 No.58229	18-Lister LD No.7990
19-1959 Lister 6/1 Electric Flywheel No.4201619	20-National Lighting Plant	21-1962-Lister 6/1 No.261512
22-Yanmar NT10 No. F2979	23-Sendeling DM10 No.84754	24-Uniporn Diesel Type O
25-Wolseley (Boeresake) WLB8	26-1934 Lister D / Lister Generator Spec13D2T No.D1120127	27-International Harvester LB  No.LB122868
28-1930 Lister D Spec 12D No.94452	29-1928 Lister Spec83K No.74057	30-Ruston & Hornsby PB
31-Lister A Tank Cooled No.872AK4	32-1920 Blackstone Hot Bulb No.143410	33-Texaco Chariot

List of Stationary Engines with Neville Botha

- The Bentall Maize Mill, Model 557.

- Blue Bentall (Oats Roller) , Model XRSE (SE for Sandstone Estates).
Made by Bentall & Co. Ltd, Heybridge, England.

- BMA Oats Roller Mill with electric motor (colour green). Made by R.
Hunt & Company Ltd, Earls Colne, England.

- Rusty red colour - Massey Harris mielie grinder (Brown colour) No. 6
(Safim Massey Harris No. 6 Grinder, Vreneka, South Africa)

- John Deere Mielie Sheller, No. 6694-C.

- Silver Manufacturing Company. Salim, Ohio. No. 8 Model. Shaft
Cutter - Patent D March 25 1890.

Maize Sheller (Made in United States of America). Northson Junior.
All wood.

Sandstone Heritage Trust - News

It's called a Daimler Industrial Diesel, London, and so far, no mention has been found of this marque (at least as far as Stationary Engines are concerned), by the leading researchers in UK.
A similar engine was manufactured by Porn & Dunwoody, a firm established in 1927, who specialised in the supply of bought-in spares for the German made Deutz engines until WW2. When it became impossible to obtain spares, they started making their own. Complete diesel engines were then produced bearing the name Uniporn.

Sandstone Heritage Trust - News

Come and join us at Sandstone Estates for our annual Harvest Festival!

In order to find out more about our Daimler engine a colleague of ours, Andy Selfe, contacted Stationary Engine Magazine. The attached appeared in their December edition.

Sandstone Heritage Trust - News

17th March 2005

Hoekfontein is the central farm at Sandstone Estates and houses both the headquarters of the commercial farming operations and the heritage centre. A pre-war National engine which was apparently purchased second-hand by the Wille family who owned the farm for 150 years has remained in the same place where is has been for many years and is in immaculate working order. However, we don't have a clear idea of how old this engine is and if any readers of this article could throw some light on that we would be most grateful.

To provide background information on National engines we have re-produced details from Patrick Knights outstanding A to Z on stationary engines.

Sandstone Heritage Trust - News

Neville Botha, the doyen of stationary engine collectors in Southern Africa, held one of his popular annual Open Days at his home, some 70-kms from Johannesburg recently. Even though the weather was dreary the enthusiasts brightened up the day by showing their engines and support.

Neville is an inveterate collector of old items and has a wonderful cross-section of stationary engines, tractors, vintage cars, petrol memorabilia and agricultural machinery.  He also has a priceless collection of detailed items such as cream separators, tools, blow lamps, refrigerators, ox yokes and literally too many items to begin to list or photograph.

Neville’s Open Day is a relaxed affair in his garden on the banks of the Klip River.  The emphasis is “Bring your own – be it a machine, wife, mistress, or something to eat or drink”. 

Neville Botha in a jovial mood

Sandstone Heritage Trust - News

8th June 2006

David and I have been having some fun and games with a French engine we discovered in a scrap yard in Petit. It is a TRAIN JT 175 2 stroke all aluminium alloy engine made by E Train et Cie Constructeurs, Paris. Dated probably about mid 50s as the bolts are both BSF [ 3/16 " BSF can you believe it!! ] and metric.

Heritage - News

13th November 2007

In January 2001, the SWAT team of the Cape Vintage Engine & Machinery Society visited Kersefontein, near Hopefield, to meet owner Julian Melck. We were following up leads on old engines, and we were not disappointed. On the farm were two Fairbanks Morse YH engines. One, a 14HP model is still standing on a concrete block where it used to run a centrifugal pump, drawing water out of the Berg River. 

This engine is badly rusted from standing out in the weather and has parts missing from it. It would take an enormous amount of work to restore. However, there was another, of 10HP, stored in a shed, lying in pieces, along with the generator which it used to drive. Julian persuaded me to restore this for him. This included making new main bearings and a combustion chamber. These jobs were done over the following two years or so, and then an attempt was made to start it. The bearings were still too stiff to allow the operator to swing the flywheel rim against compression, which, like with a Lanz tractor, is the normal way to start it. It needed to be 'run-in' by another engine or tractor, using a belt.

Connection between Uniporn and Daimler

 It is most pleasing that Peter Dyer has handed this extremely interesting historical document concerning the manufacture of Uniporn H10 and H12 diesel engines to the Sandstone Heritage Trust. The pictures are available on the website for all to see and marvel at! In it, there are several references in it concerning a tie-up between Porn & Dunwoody and Daimler, for example:

Fascinating photographic album supplied to Sandstone on Uniporn Diesel engines.
Peter Dyer in the UK sent the Sandstone Heritage Trust a fascinating album covering the manufacturing of the original production lines etc. of the manufacturer. Peter goes on to comment as follows:

"Briefly, I worked for Porn & Dunwoody from 1980 to 1988 selling their range of Diesel Injection Spares to suit many makes of engine. At that time the Uniporn Diesel was a forgotten animal, although I was involved in the last two large spares orders that went out to Aden for the engine. During the mid 80's Porn and Dunwoody decided to scrap all the old stock of spares for the H10 to make way for a stockholding of Lift spares which was becoming a major part of their business. As such all the old photo albums and manuals etc were either given away to interested parties or dumped. This is how I became the owner.

As you may know the H10 was a copy of a Deutz which Porn & Dunwoody used to market in the UK until the outbreak of the Second World War. At this time all ties were broken with Deutz and aerial photographs that Porn & Dunwoody had of the factory in Colgne were commandeered by Bomber Command to raze the facility to the ground."