Steam engines with their sparks and open fireboxes were not a great idea in gunpowder factories. Ruston introduced this paraffin powered model which worked Waltham Abbey Gun Powder Mill during World War One. Engines like this helped produce munitions for the war effort. It is a little ironic that it is a direct copy of a German design.
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