Ruston Hornsby HR6 @ Farm in Pakistan

This Ruston Hornsby HR6 Straight Desiel engine fitted on our farm Near Jhelum Pakistan to drive water turbine for agriculture and farming. It has been fully restored at the cost of around £3000. All required parts were purchased from Leicester (England).
The records show that this Engine was sold in 1950 to company in Bombay than they lost this engine until 2004 when we bought it from NWF province of Pakistan (yeh U R right A TALEBAN's teritory) for £2500. Some of the parts (gears and pulleys) has been made from the actual drawings provided by the company it self as they no longer hold these parts. All the features r present apart from the top cover which has been painted and decorated by previous owners. more to follow.}}}}}}}}
If you zoom in on google map u will be able to see areial view of the farm buildings.

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[21trident]

absolutely beautiful angine you have there, i have a ruston aswell but nothing near that size, cherish it and it,ll look after you for years

[hotshotuk5]

@21trident , thnx for your comments, yes it is pleasure to own great piece of history, pity they don't make parts any more, otherwise we will see lot more of these engines being restored. It took us nearly three years to complete this project but still require some parts, which we are actively looking for.

[trevortrevortsr2]

Absolutly fantastic - You must be very proud

[hotshotuk5]

@trevortrevortsr2 , Yes we are very proud ...... thnx

[rustyiron100]

Wonderul to see this old engine running again and doing something useful. I have a 1934 Ruston 6HR and it is being installed into a shed to drive some old belt driven machinery (museum) Did you do the restoration yourselves and do you have any good tips on getting them up and running as you have done? I notice that you start it with a small engine/pilot motor?

Well done guys...

[hotshotuk5]

@rustyiron100 thank you for your support, we have managed to get an original self starter system (1 with a big cylinder etc) here in England, waiting to be shipped to Pakistan. can't wait to see that's working too!!!!

[glasstronic]

Outstanding!

[bigkiwimike]

I work at a museum in Auckland, New Zealand. We have one of these and this video gives us an idea of what ours probably looked like when it arrived in the country. Thanks for sharing and very well done.

[TheMuddyRiver]

They were used in gran elevators all over the Canadian prairies. The finest engine ever built. Speed was controlled very accurateley, fuel consuption was low. Fix that flat belt on the turbine before someone gets hurt!!

[hotshotuk5]

U r welcome, yes we r proud to have a part of history and yes it was a pleasure working on this project with my dad. We r still gethering parts to finish of final few bits, as now we've obtained drawing and part list.