Cylinder Collection

Tazio Nuvolari - D Type Auto-Union
Tazio Nuvolari, probably the finest driver seen in this period, on a D Type Auto-Union with 3-litre, twelve cylinder, 450 hp rear mounted engine

Calthorpe Racing Car
1908 Tourist Trophy Race, 24th Sept, Calthorpe 4-cylinder racing car. Known as the Four Inch Race because that was the maximum size of cylinder bore allowed for entry. Race heId on Isle of Man

Phonograph Recording
Recording a man playing the piano using Edisons improved model phonograph

Flettner rotor diagram on a boat. A Flettner rotor is a smooth cylinder with disc end plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it

Cylinder of Cyrus the Great with text written in akkadian cuneiform. Clay. Describes the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC and the capture of King Nabonidus by Cyrus the Great

LCC-LFB Shand Mason motor steam fire engine
The motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than the Merryweather Fire King self-propelled steam engine

Joseph Bramahs hydrostatic (hydraulic) press, 18th century.. Joseph Bramahs hydrostatic (hydraulic) press, sections of the pump and cylinder, 18th century

Double cylinder steam fire engine made by Thomas Coates
A double cylinder steam fire engine, made by Thomas Coates, awarded the Champion Gold Medal at Crystal Palace, London, in 1890. Date: late 19th century

Rolls-Royce Exe 24-cylinder, air-cooled, X-block, sleeve-valve engine B Series outside the Ramp Hangar at Hucknall

Delivery truck c. 1910
Hearse and Casket Body on Buick m/4 Four Cylinder Commercial Chassis. Photographic post card of a drawing or print of a Buick hearse

Ancient Jewish scrolls in Jerusalem, thought to be the oldest Pentateuch manuscript

Artists impression of the Hall-Scott A-8 500hp inline engine
Artists impression of the Hall-Scott A-8 500hp 12-cylinder inline engine on a test stand

Bristol Hercules 736 14-cylinder radial Front port view
Bristol Hercules 736 14-cylinder radial. Front port view

Marmon 8 Cylinder
The Marmon - eight cylinders in line ! must be good !

Clayton & Shuttleworth Road Roller YA7417
Clayton & Shuttleworth Road Roller, regn. YA7417, number 48835 at the Plymouth Mayflower Rally. Built in 1923 by Clayton & Shuttleworth in Lincoln, powered by a single cylinder steam engine

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine HO5601
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. HO5601, 7294, The Sheaf of Arrows at Buckfastleigh. Built in 1912 by Wallis & Steevens at Basingstoke, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Aveling-Barford Road Roller GMK 939
Aveling-Barford Road Roller, regn. GMK 939, number 621, Lady Helen. Built in 1939 by Aveling-Barford in Grantham, powered by a 4 Nhp single cylinder steam engine. Date: 1970s-1980s

Foster General Purpose Engine CT6708
Foster General Purpose Engine, regn. CT6708, number 14422. Built in 1924 by William Foster & Co. in Lincoln, powered by a 7 Nhp single cylinder steam engine. Date: 1970s-1980s

Cowpers Cylinder Printing Machine

Six cylinder veteran Napier car, early 1900s

Siebe Gorman pump converted to drinks cabinet
MARITIME: a rare fully fitted Admiralty pattern two diver twin cylinder double acting pump by Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd, London converted to a bespoke drinks cabinet. 23ins. x 42ins. x 20ins

WW2 - Food And Supply Cylinder
A photograph of a food and supply cylinder being attached to the underside of a British WW2 plane's wing. Date: circa 1940s

Zlin Persy 4, horizontally-opposed air-cooled 4 cylinder aero engine of 57 / 65 hp. Date: 1938

Turkey. Constantinople. Galata Tower
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Galata Tower or Tower of Christ. It was buit in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople

Napier Advertisement
A photographic advertisement for D. Napier & Son Ltd. promoting the six cylinder Napier motor carriage, which is seen in the image, driving down a countryside lane in front of a magnificent castle

Knight - Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella
Knight with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, a distinction created in 1815, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII, in honor of Queen Isabella I

Advert, The Edison Phonograph, wax cylinder player
Advert for The Edison Phonograph, wax cylinder player, National Phonograph Company. Date: 1901

24 hour endurance record, trio of 6 cylinder 65 hp Napiers
24 hour endurance record, trio of 6 cylinder stripped 65 hp Napiers. Led by Napier selling agent SF Edge on the day before the opening of the track in Jul 1907

Mrs Kennard driving Mr Kennard's 8hp 2 cylinder Napier which completed 1000 miles trial 1900 in when driven by Selwyn Francis Edge. Date: circa 1902

Scotch Express, LNER No. 10000, high pressure 4 cylinder compound locomotive by C.T. Howard

Original Napier Samson 6 cylinder, the fastest of its day. Date: circa 1904

Pacific Class. 2. 4040 Queen Boadicea
1. 111 The Great Bear, 4 cylinders 6-8 wheels, Pacific Class. 2. 4040 Queen Boadicea, 4 cylinders 6-8 wheels, 4000 Class. 3. 2034 Butleigh Court, 2 cylinders 6-8 wheels, 2900 Class. 4

Webbs passenger engine. 3 cylinder compound, side elevation locomotive no 300, Crewe Works. Scale 1.5 inches:1 foot. Signed F W Webb 10/1/83, and embossed Henry Chapman, 113 Victoria Street

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Open Touring Car
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 40-50 hp six-cylinder Open Touring Car. circa 1923

How a railway train is propelled -- two diagrams of a locomotive engine, showing firebox, boiler, smoke box, steam chamber, cylinder and piston, safety valves, steam whistle and feed pipe. Date: 1841

Coral cylinder snake and common slug eater
Coral cylinder snake, Anilius scytale (Tortrix scytale), and common slug eater, Duberria lutrix (Homalosoma arctiventris)

Mr. Dixons machine for boring cylinders at the Falcon Iron Foundry. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr

Music-box mechanism with cylinder and hammers to play chimes on a bell, and music score to Ignace Joseph Pleyels German Hymn

Chinese soldiers, Qing Dynasty China. One beating the evening watch on a bamboo cylinder, the other holding a lantern. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Synthaprufe air raid shelters, WW2
Synthaprufe air raid shelters -- operating pedal-driven air filtration plant, 125 cubic feet per minute capacity for 50 persons (top), first stages of construction of a shelter (bottom). 1939

H P Scripps six-cylinder 50-60 speedboat. 1912

Pictures on the wireless! New wonder for B. B. C audience 1928
Diagram showing the new way in which the B.B.C will broadcast photographs and drawings. 1928

A B C propelled by steam velocipede 1869
Two wheeled steam-powered velocipede, consisting of oscillating cylinders situated behind the carriage, driving a small cranked stage

Loves phonograph
Victorian illustration depicting fairies listening to Edisons wax cylinder phonograph introduced at the end of the 19th century. Date: 1898

Merryweather single cylinder steam fire engine
Merryweather single cylinder direct acting steam fire engine. Date: early 20th century

de Havilland Gipsy Six. Six cylinder air-cooled inverted in-line piston Engine, developing 200-220 hp. RHS view Date: 1970s

Fowler Ploughing Engine NR 1213
Fowler Ploughing Engine, regn. NR 1213, number 1642. Built in 1871 by John Fowler & Co. in Leeds, powered by an 12 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Fowler Ploughing Engine NR 1212
Fowler Ploughing Engine, regn. NR 1212, number 1641. Built in 1871 by John Fowler & Co. in Leeds, powered by an 12 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

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