Gas engine Ruston CD

This engine can be considered for its arrangements as the typical spark ignited internal combustion engine of the early ‘900, widely used to drive industrial machinery.
Despite its overall arrangement is strictly derived from the contemporary steam engines, it has all those features which have been progressively developed in the following decades.
In particular this engine has been acquired in ca. 1906 to drive the hydraulic pumps of a Sicilian sulphur mine. Then it was used up to the 40’s/50’s to produce electricity in a mountain farm.