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Cobbs Mill Tangy Gas Engine
Stationary Engine
|September 2017
This large Tangye gas engine located at Cobbs Mill, Sayers Common, West Sussex was first featured in May 2005 (No 374) issue of Stationary Engine.
The engine, which carries the serial number 12330, is believed to have been built around 1908 and was supplied from a gas producer plant built by the National Gas Engine Co. It is an ‘X’ type, size K with a 13 inch bore and considered to be about 30-40 hp. It is ignitor-fired, with L/T trip magneto and is thought to have last run in the 1960s when the mill went out of use.
The engine and gas plant are believed to have been installed secondhand by J W Holloway and Sons, Engineers, of Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, as the engine bears their plate; it replaced a steam engine. The engine drove the mill machinery at times of peak demand or when the water in the leat was insufficient to power the waterwheel.
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