Bassett-Lowke Toy Steam Engine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Bassett-Lowke manufactured this metal steam engine toy in Northampton, England around 1920. The toy consists of a horizontal boiler with sight glass, steam whistle, pressure gauge, and throttle valve on top of a black simulated brick firebox with chimney stack. The boiler powers a cam operated valve gear horizontal engine and flywheel that is connected to a line shaft with three pulleys. The boiler, engine, and line shaft are all on a tin base. The line shaft may not be original to the toy.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Bassett-Lowke is a toy company in Northampton, England that was founded in 1899, and constructed a variety of model boats, ships, trains, and engines until it went out of business in 1965.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Northampton
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329033
label: catalog number
content: 329033
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, engine-boiler lineshaft
label: Object Name
content: engine-boiler-lineshaft, steam, toy
label: Object Name
content: toy, steam engine-boiler-lineshaft
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Measurements
content: boiler-from catalog card: 8 1/2 in x 3 in; x 21.59 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-from catalog card: 16 1/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 14 in; 41.275 cm x 39.37 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: flywheel: 4 1/4 in; x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 15 5/8 in x 14 in; 24.13 cm x 39.6875 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: smokestack: 10 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 27.6225 cm x 4.445 cm