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Copied from UK Stationary Engine Forum (forumotion.com), please spread the word. An enthusiast in Shropshire has had his entire engine collection stolen while away at a family bereavement in Devon. Enthusiasts offered any items resembling the following are requested to contact the West Midlands Police, address as supplied below: The Police details are as follows: Crime Number 22/72262/21, West Midlands Police Constable Jamie Magee 07817 158319 or 101 ext 7773906 Unfortunately there are no surviving photographs of any of stolen items and just the serial number of the Victoria{2868) but the following is a list: Victoria 7HP, S/N 2868 * Amanco 2.75HP on trolley{engine painted green) * Fairbanks 3HP on skids (Salter & Stokes suppliers transfer} * Lister B 3HP on skids * Lister A 3HP as found Bamford 1.5HPon 2 wheel trolley * Petter M 5 HP as found Fowler i.5HP radiator cooled dismantled Lister D 1.5 hopper cooled * Lister D 15 radiator cooled * Lister D close coupled tank cooled with replica tank Fairbanks 1.5HP headless on skids * Fairbanks 3HP as found HT Wolesley 1.5HP WD8 painted blue * Lister L type twin with free-standing original radiator as found Lister L type on skids as found No cooling tank Lister Startamatic 1.5KW as found No control gear Land Rover engine 1948 incomplete Lister water pump Newton dynamo 24volt MAC centrifugal pump Old oak 4 wheel engine trolley Dennis 36’’mower with fibreglass grass box Howard Gem rotavator JAP engine incomplete and rusty Lister butter churn Petter A 1.5HP dismantled Asterisk denotes older restoration. All others are as found. These details are on Facebook and will appear shortly in Stationary Engine Magazine Thank you Eric

Had good service from Paul at Meetens on the couple of occasions I've used them. Sad, but health comes first.

Hello and welcome! Ex - military unit judging by the colour? The carb could be a variant of the Zenith 24T I think. I would be worth joining here as well: UK Stationary Engine Forum (forumotion.com) Good luck with the project!

Lovely! Just needs a load of hay with a couple of members of ze resistance under it in the back...

Looks like a Nettle? Probably not what you want growing on a seat...

Sorry to drag this thread back from the dead but I've just got back from picking one of these up. I was only supposed to be picking up the Allam Minigen that I won on ebay but the guy said 'are you interested in this...?' Well, you know how it goes...

I'm curious if anyone has actually tried using one of those drills. All I can think of is the potential broken wrist if the bit jams.

Looks like the white plastic hook goes the other side of the vertical bit of the spring?

Happy new year everyone! Here's to a better 2021!

As far as value goes it's worth what someone wants to pay for it, I paid £64 for my MK15 (first one I bought), my MK12 was £10 and my MK25HS £15. The MK20 was £34 delivered IIRC. The MK25's were £30 each. These are all ebay prices for complete unrestored engines. I'm happy to spend more than the engines are worth to restore them as it's my hobby, and most if not all hobbies cost money to some extent. The 'V' engine was the designation given to wartime Villiers engines, the idea being that the company name and address didn't appear on them so if they fell into enemy hands they didn't give away information that could be used to locate targets for bombing. It's interesting that your engine has a separate plate with the Villiers name on, maybe it was a surplus engine sold after the war?

Right, according to the May 1956 MK10 &12 and MK15 parts books the part number for the flywheel with cam and extractor nut but less fan is R.56 The March 1966 MK15 parts book gives a different part number, this could be just a number change for the same part?

The Corgi engines were horizontal. According to the internet, Braves were sidevalve 4-stokes.

There are a few Villiers fans on here: https://ukengineforum.forumotion.com/forum Might be worth joining and posting up a wanted ad? I'll check the parts books later, MK10, 12 and 15 may be the same flywheel.

Hello and welcome from another Villiers fan! I've got a MK12 off a Monro tiller now driving a compressor, a C12 on a 2" centrifugal pump, a MK15 (resto thread is on here), A Mk20 off a cement mixer (currently in bits), 2 ex Air Ministry MK25s and a MK25HS. I'm not sure if I'm reading it right, but I don't thing running it without the cowl would be a good idea, not for any length of time anyway. It's designed to duct cooling air over the cylinder. I have a manual that covers the MK10 in PDF form, if you PM me your email I'll send you a copy.

You may not get something exactly the same but I think you'd get something that would do the same job. Replacement may be a sealed bearing without the grease nipple.

It doesn't look anything special, I'd have thought a local industrial/bearing supplier could sort you out if you took it in.

At the end of the day it's only paint. Once it's repainted whatever colour it's not 'original' anymore anyway. If you or a future owner want to paint it green again you/they can. Just my thoughts FWIW.

You should have kept quiet, patina'd it and fitted it to an old tool. You'd have had the O&R geeks in a frenzy looking for another one...

Hi Craig, it might be worth joining https://ukengineforum.forumotion.com/forum and asking on there. Looks like quite a project, good luck!

Probably teaching you to suck eggs, but I've found when making gaskets with not much 'meat' between a hole and the edge it's best to use a piece of gasket paper a fair bit bigger than the gasket needs to be and punch the holes out before cutting round the edge of the gasket. I've also found that placing the gasket on a piece of chipboard (I use an offcut from a kitchen cabinet) gives a much cleaner cut with the punch than using a piece of soft wood.

Villiers Midget engine? I've got an operating instructions and parts list for the MK2 & 3 Midget in a PDF if it's any use to you? PM my your email if you want a copy.

Bit of an update on this. My boss is talking about clearing out the garage where this lives and scrapping it. I'm trying to persuade him that it is worth hanging onto until this virus thing is finished and someone could collect it. I have said that I would deal with getting rid of it. Any money raised would go to the amenity fund of the care home where I work, this pays for activities/trips for the residents. I would like to get an idea of value, maybe that would persuade him it was worth keeping for a bit. Thanks.

Looks like you've got a long enough run to 'figure of 8' the belt?

Engine pulley runs anti-clockwise so you'll be going backwards?

Why would you let a machine like that go to rack and ruin and then give it away? More money than sense?