Stuart Turner Gas Engine ??

[ron]

I was shown a Stuart Turner model gas engine running recently, it looked to be based on the No 9, does anyone know if ST produced gas engines before the war or has someone made it using No 9 castings as a basis??
Ron

[GWRdriver]

Was it perhaps a "Sandhurst"?

[ron]

Harry
That's a nice piece of kit, it was similar to that but if you look at the No 9 in a Stuart catalogue, the castings were the same but it had the same type of flywheel with curved spokes rather than the modern one with straight spokes, it also had a gear driven governor.
Ron

[alanstepney]

Pre WW2 ST produced many engines that are no longer in their catalogue, including gas engines, small-medium IC engines, etc.

I would imagine that most are a rarity nowadays.
Wonder what happened to them all?

[greasemonkey]

Hi Ron
Sounds more like the Bruce engineering R&B gas engine have a look here
www.pollymodelengineering.co.uk/sections/stationary-engines/our-own-engines/index.asp
I seem to remember there being some connection between bruce Engineering and Stuarts at some point but I may be wrong.

Andy

[ron]

It's definately a ST, I was curious as to whether it was made as a gas engine or converted from the steam castings and I think Alan has answered that.
A friend of mine was given it, in poor condition many years ago by the son of a deceased model engineer, he restored to a nice condition, he reckoned it was built originally prewar.
It pops away quite nicely on a camping gas cylinder.
Andy, thanks for that link, some of their stuff looks quite interesting, I'm still quite new to this and don't know a lot of these suppliers.
Ron

[Jo]

Hi Andy,

The R&B is not a Stuart engine, it named after R. White and Bruce Davey the designers of that specific Gas engine. Out of interest I've got one sitting in the side board at home....: it's a strong sideboard.

Jo

[SteveW]

Andy,

I just followed that URL of yours, some neat stuff. However, what's an AGE (Atmospheric Gas Engine)? It's the 'atmospheric' bit I'm not sure of.

[GWRdriver]

Ron,
I think Alan has it. S-T produced many engines that never were in their catalogue, at least the "models" catalogues. On my first visit to the old Henley High Street shop I was told that the "Models" were a seperate department. In my memory (growing shorter) the only two IC engines listed in the "models" line were the Sandhurst and the 800 and the 800 does have curved flywheel spokes and a gear-driven valve train.

[greasemonkey]

Hi All
So you think it will be one of these then!!!!!
www.stationroadsteam.com/Stuart/800.htm
or its bigger brother
www.stationroadsteam.com/Stuart/600.htm

Andy

[ron]

Hi Andy, It's the same as the first one, not a bad thing to be donated even if it did need a bit of work.
Ron

[alanstepney]

There are a couple of Stuart gas engines on the Bonhams auction site of the Engineerium sale.
See the "Engineerium closes" thread for the link.