Video - 2 rather nice SW Van Horn engines.

[Gas_mantle]

I stumbled across this video by accident and thought as the engines are a bit unusual it may be of interest.

I've never heard of SW Van Horn but they seem to be attractive engines - I bet the first one would sound great on steam 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgtBQJpuXw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgtBQJpuXw</a>

[Flyboy Jim]

That's a nice running engine. I always wonder just how these sorts of engine designs come about. Were they developed in isolation or developed to improve on some existing design or what?  Maybe there was just a lot of "re-inventing the wheel" going on during that era.

Jim

[Stuart]

That looks like reddrryder ‘s collection

I think he collects not makes but I may be wrong

https://m.youtube.com/user/reddrryder

[Jasonb]

Yes Gil is more of a collector than maker but he does restore engines that have had a hard life. He tends to post over on Smokstak forum.

A lot of these "different" designs came about to try an bypass patents that the well know makers took out which tended to restrict competition.

[Gas_mantle]

Reddrryder has posted a bit more including a few photos here :-

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/modelsteam/2-s-w-van-horn-steam-engines-models-for-vulcan-iro-t68941.html

[Ye-Ole Steam Dude]

I stumbled across this video by accident and thought as the engines are a bit unusual it may be of interest.

I've never heard of SW Van Horn but they seem to be attractive engines - I bet the first one would sound great on steam 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgtBQJpuXw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgtBQJpuXw</a>

Hello Gas_mantle,

Absolutely love that first engine, thanks for sharing.

Have a great day,
Thomas

[Flyboy Jim]

A lot of these "different" designs came about to try an bypass patents that the well know makers took out which tended to restrict competition.

Ah.......that makes sense.

Jim

[crueby]

A lot of these "different" designs came about to try an bypass patents that the well know makers took out which tended to restrict competition.

Ah.......that makes sense.

Jim

One case of that I recall was the planetary gear someone used to connect the flywheel to the crankshaft on an early beam engine, since Watt or someone had the patent on a flywheel on the end of a crankshaft!