USE Marine Steam Plant

Unit Steam Engine marine steam plant. The USE plants were designed with a novel tilting boiler design to allow the fuel tablets to be added. This is a single cylinder version of the plant, although twin versions were made with both twin engines, and twin boilers. This plant is ideally suited to driving a model boat. The basic USE engine is designed to be configurable into different layouts of engines.
A single cylinder USE engine can be seen in my video here:
• USE Unit Steam Engine
A four cylinder variant of the USE engine can be seen in my video here: • 4 Cylinder Steam Engin...

[@MichaelS3013]

terrific 👍
Is there also a boat?

[@SteamandThings]

Unfortunately not for this one. I've some videos to make of my steam boat collection when the weather improves though.

[@astravanmk2]

It’s a bonny thing that Jim.

[@SteamandThings]

Nice isn't it! Very simple, but beautifully made, and goes like the clappers.