A Portuguese Steam Engine Miscellany 

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In recent years Thomas Kautzor has been a frequent visitor to the country mainly to record the extant steam locomotives but he has also made time for other steam (era) engines, in particular cranes. This page records examples of road steam, stationary steam and not quite steam.

This Fowler steam roller is preserved at Vila Real, its exact identity is unknown.

This Ruston Proctor portable engine is preserved at Darque. The European Traction Engine Register records it as being 32972/1906.

This semi-portable engine is at Lousado Museum. The builder was Feodor Siegel of Schoenebeck, not a well known builder! The European Traction Engine Register records it as being 1189/1903.

Examples of classic duplex pumps are found all over the world. As often as not they are built in the USA although this one at Corgo (Regua) is of unknown provenance. 

This exhibit at Bragança is described as a 'boiler' but is clearly an engine. Just what the assumed belt on either flywheel was used to drive has not been recorded.

This small unidentified 'table engine' is at Lousado.

Finally, despite appearances this is not an engine but an air compressor, it would have been driven by a belt. It was made by Ingersoll-Rand of New York and is found in Darque.