Dermuth, The Green, Woolpit, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk,
England
On reading your GEM, May-June 1974, under the heading of
‘Smoke Rings’ which is what I read first, I noticed the
first article was on the Stover Engines. Well, I have a
‘Carbrooke’ Engine, which was assembled here at the
Carbrooke Foundry, Watton Nr Norwich, Norfolk, England.
When I contacted them (luckily still in business today), I was
told that these engines were exported by Stovers to a firm of
Pilter in France. They, in turn, re-exported to the Carbrooke
Foundry, who in turn assembled and built carriages, skids, etc. In
the early days, these engines sold under the name of Pilter.
Stovers number is stamped on end of crankshaft and Carbrooke
number on name plate. The Foundry told me that they assembled these
engines from 1910-1930.
Following are the particulars of my engine: Horizontal Open
Crank
Engine No. T 142663
Bore 5?
Stroke 6?
Flywheel diam. 28′
Flywheel face 2?’
Cylinder Cast No. E402
Base Tank No. E461
Flywheel No. E407
Flywheel No. E408
Cylinder Head – E402, etc.
Big End – grease. Main bearings.
Hit & Miss governor. Petrol pumped from tank in base. Also a
hand throttle control. Webster Tri-polar Magneto, type K25, No.
654527, worked by a straight-bar Strieker.
My grateful thanks to a great magazine of which we, in this
country cannot match.
