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FOWLER 16 H.P. SINGLE CYLINDER - PLOUGHING ENGINE |
One of the great Fowler ploughing engines. Featuring Fowler No. 5872 built at Leeds 1889c. Single cylinder engine fitted with church valve, double speed ploughing gear and governors. Ploughing engines have a charm all of their own, for builders it makes an interesting challenge from a Traction Engine, with additional interest, and this engine has the most beautifully proportioned lines of any ploughing engine.
As featured for construction by John Haining in The Model Engineer. Vols 147 - 148
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FOWLER CLASS Z7S & SUPERBA - PLOUGHING ENGINE |
The Fowler Z7S and Superba compound ploughing engines were very large and quite imposing in full size with an appeal all of their own, retaining that presence in John Haining's 2" scale version they are truly impressive from all views, a very good sized and robust model to build, with the added advantage of the single speed ploughing gear, though for those completely mad! you may use the double speed ploughing gear arrangement from the Fowler 16 HP Single Cylinder Ploughing Engine. "For every country, for every soil, for every crop" Fowler Cultivation Machinery the world over, Hawaii, Mexico, California, Mozambique, Tasmania, Australia, Cuba, Germany, France, Italy the list goes on and on. In Italy in 1927 the Mussolini goverment launched an ambitious scheme to drain for cultivation a large expanse of scrub and marshland, the Pontine Marshes outside Rome, which had defied cultivation since the time of the Romans, for which a design was produced of a big compound ploughing engine 'Superba' and so goes the introduction to the construction by John Haining, and is well worth following up.
As featured for construction by John Haining in The Model Engineer. Vols 161 - 164
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