Some more junk...

Yesterday I went to pick up an Allam Minigen that I won on ebay. The main reason I bought it was it has a Villiers F15 engine and I haven't got one. Not sure about the tank, the others I've found pictures of have the tank mounted above the alternator, this has a plastic cover. Someone has thrown some paint in it's general direction at some point.



The seller was a farmer who is retiring and planning to downsize so I had a tour of his accumulation of old tractors, engines ect. Somehow this ended up in the van as well...



Swan military charging set with a JAP engine, the farmer used to use it for charging up tractor batteries. Hopefully just needs a once over and a good clean. Oh, and I picked up a 12V Lucas dynamo as well for a future project...

Amazing how that happens - looks good though!
My Villiers has an Allan generator although it looks older design than yours. What model is the JAP?

Alan

The generator is an Allam, with an 'M'... https://www.facebook.com/epallam/

The engine on the Swan set has JAP on the recoil, but is listed as a Villiers 507H-1. As Villiers took over JAP in 1957 I suppose it could be called a Villiers-JAP. The sets were used to charge the batteries in nuclear monitoring posts manned by the Royal Observer Corp.

http://www.roc-heritage.co.uk/other-equipment.html

Nice finds!

Sorry, it had 'spell check' assistance!
Mine is also an Allam. Enjoy.

Alan

Nice little haul, I recently collected another Villiers V engine, mainly for spares and "accidentally" came away with a little Briggs and Stratton engine as well

Not my area of experience so I may need help identifying it.

Swans set are nice, I used to show a 2 stroke Swan set when I was 6.

Sod's law, another Minigen has popped up on ebay with a 99p starting price about the same distance away... . This has the tank mounted next to the engine within the frame, I wonder if someone has fitted a bigger tank on mine to give a longer running time? (I really should get out more...)