This engine came from Young, New South Wales. I swapped a restored 1928 Fordson tractor for it. The Austral had apparently run a laundry in Young, NSW(a former gold mining town). The Moffat-Virtue records record it as being sold new to a farm (as a portable) at Greenthorpe NSW, however written over this is an owner at Koorawatha which is about 20km away. So a change of ownership must have happened early in its recorded life. Both of these places are not far from Young so the engine has not traveled much. The engine was brought into Young after a working life on the farm and made into a stationary engine to run the laundry. When it was removed from the laundry it was mounted on the transport it was on when I aquired the engine, which is a large Lister transport.
This engine is one of 8 3.5hp lamp start, portable top-tank Australs on the Austral Register & one of 16 3.5hp lamp start engines on the register.
Click Here For Some Pictures from a weekend working on the Austral
Bringing
the Austral to Sydney. The first movement of the Austral in 20 years. June
2002.
In my yard
July 2002
The business
end of the sideshaft
Some detail
of the engine. Note the original striping
The Austral's
first rally. Cambelltown in November 2002.
Australia
Day 2003.
October
2004. Exhaust pipe cast for the engine.
Exhaust pipe
sitting on the engine before the mounting holes are drilled.
Macksville
Sept. 2004
Sydney
Sept. 2004
24th October 2004. No.1874
stands at its birth place in Ballarat, Vic. for the first time since 1917
Cambelltown May 2007
Macksville
September 2007
Sydney
September 2007
Manilla June 2009
December 2011. Some detail of the engine.
In the garage with the vertical Stover behind.
This ad
shows the 10/11hp Engine.
This
ad shows the 6hp-8hp engines.
This
ad shows the later style engine fitted with a magneto.
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