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Author: Lakin, F. N.
Title: Worlds Oldest Extant McNaught Beam Engine
In: 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings
Imprint: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 139-143
ISBN/ISSN: 1858256843
Url: https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.546746682842528
Abstract: In 1955, over 100 years after its date of manufacture in 1854 by A & W Smith & Co of Paisley near Glasgow, this McNaught Beam Engine was removed from Risby Bros Timber Mill & Factory in Collins Street, Hobart. In September 1990, it was placed on display at the Hobart Institute of TAFE and in 1997 it was awarded an Historic Engineering Marker. This paper describes the Engineering Details of the Engine and the steps leading up to the claim of being the Worlds Oldest Extant McNaught Beam Engine.

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