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Uploaded by on Apr 22, 2011

This is the Southwell (Stover) engine from the Lister factory collection that has recently arrived at the museum.

Rebuilt by volunteer John a couple of weeks ago some of the volunteers ran her for the first time today.

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  • Whoever is doing the camera work is doing better on the video, allowing the viewer to see a lot more.

  • @DUNBARPLUMBING Museum has a new camera, old one was a large broadcast camera on a tripod with a laptop as a recorder - we could only do fixed shots with a tripod :-)

    Glad you think it is an improvement!

  • So does it fire when the speed gets to a certain point? or is it a certain stroke engine?

  • @computerfreaq17 The governor holds the exhaust valve open when up to speed then as the engine slows down the valve is released, gets compression, fires, governor holds the exhaust valve opn.......

    With a load on she would run a lot better.

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  • Imagine this tech in a car for the highway if they made 1 strong enough... can you say 200mpg?

  • Sounds strange to my untrained ear however you guys know what your doing :) Well done guys :)

  • @MrNik1001 The inlet valve is atmospheric and will only open when the exhaust is off the governor so fuel is only drawn in when the engine performs a normal cycle.

  • How efficient or not are these engines? If you are able to make your own fuel, would it be a viable alternative to being off the grid and generate your own power? Are there modern versions of these built any more? It would seem with the crazy prices now there would be a market for something like this for prepper/self reliant type people.

  • Superb! Great to see one of these pre 1909 engines running. I saw a Southwell a couple of years ago at the Kingsfold rally but it was a good bit smaller than this one.

    Great video, thanks for sharing this with us.

  • Great looking and sounding engine. It hit every time it was supposed to.

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