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This is the one Myford sell. https://www.myford.co.uk/acatalog/REAR-SPLASH-GUARD-FOR-INDUSTRIAL-CABINET-3371.html

Don’t know about a leaflet, but this book has a lot about it. https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/miniature-internal-combustion-engines-1861269218

Indeed. I doubt that Boulton and Watt produced many engines which were precisely identical, but this is the one in the Science Museum to which vederstein refers.

This one 'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799 | Science Museum Group Collection

It is still advertised for sale on their website. I was considering ordering a set until I saw your model. Storage might be a problem for me.

One of the engines which galvanised the Industrial Revolution. I presume this is built from this kit: Polly Model Engineering: Stationary Engine Kits - Anthony Mount Models

Many years ago I went to Istanbul on business. I was telling the bosun at our sailing club this, and he informed me that he had just returned from a short holiday there. He described and interesting modification which appears to be mandatory for all Turkish taxis; the brake pedal is...

Crikey! That’s a very long needle for an epidural, the longest I’ve heard of is 15cm, or about 6”. Although the longest I’ve seen, admittedly over 40 years ago, would have been nearer 8cm. The plastic cannulae which are threaded through them are longer, of course.

I believe there are some folk engaged in transatlantic pharmaceutical transport who may be able to help. You might even get a free passage if you play your cards right. I don’t think they offer return fares.

I think you’d be doing well to get outside US territorial waters in one of those. Perhaps if you put cans in the back and passenger seats. Refuelling while afloat might be challenging.

This might interest you:

Are you acquainted with this: Commer TS3 - Wikipedia ?

That again is a compression ignition engine, with a hotspot to initiate combustion, bit like A glow plug engine. Not a Diesel. See here: Hot-bulb engine - Wikipedia

Compression ignition, two stroke, not a Diesel. They called it a Diesel, but it isn’t/wasn’t.

Search me, it’s not a term I’d use. You need to ask those who do.

This was a common means to fuel tractors in the fifties. The fuel was classified as Tractor Vapourising Oil, or TVO. It was similar to diesel fuel, but of course the tractors continued to use the same compression ratio and spark to burn the fuel. The only engine which can properly be called a...