LISTER CS 3.5hp at 650rpm. Made in Dursley, England in 1937.
Single cylinder 'Cold Start' diesel stationary engine.
I acquired this engine in 2009 and during 2017 and 2018, the engine was completely overhauled by me from bottom to top after having stood idle in a farm shed for about 30 or 40 years. The farm was near Waroona, Western Australia and the engine was originally supplied by 'Malloch Bros' Perth, Western Australia.
It is believed to have originally powered a small lighting plant on the farm. When electricity was finally laid to the farm probably in the late 1940s, the engine was re-purposed to drive milking machinery out in the dairy, most likely driving a vacuum pump.