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vi numbers of The English Mechanic; but this involves a troublesome search and a comparison of sometimes diverse directions.

These and kindred considerations have induced me to revise and enlarge a series of papers on Model Engine-Making, which originally appeared in a magazine chiefly addressing itself to the interests of amateur workers.

Wishing these papers to be useful to as large a body of amateurs as possible, I have thought it best to give many details for the sake of beginners, which may not be needed by those who have already become practised workmen.

The patterns in which Model Engines are made are very numerous, but they will usually be found to be only varieties of one or other of the types mentioned in this book; and any one who has constructed the models here described will, I believe, find little difficulty with any other pattern, whether it be that of a model or a small power engine.

J. POCOCK


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