| Year | 1955 |
| Date | 31-Mar |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2,810 |
| Page | 346 |
| Category | Talking about Steam- |
| Part | 29 |
| Title | The Evolution of the Portable Engine |
| Author | W.J.Hughes |
| Notes | Trevithick's 1812, Gough's 1830, Howden's, Ransome's self moving 1842, the ubiquitous portable engine, a northern manufacturer, a self-moving engine, Dean of Birmingham, "built-in" threashing-machine by Tuxford, Cambridge's engine of 1847, unusual boiler design, Clayton and Shuttleworth's 1852, the Great Exhibition, Hornsby's 1849, steam-jacketed cylinder, Burrell's 1853 |