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logoman · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: METAFOT

I bought a Metafot turbine and catalogue recently, and whilst I knew that it was a rebadged WADA engine,
I saw that they also rebadged some Maxwell Hemmens engines.
I asked Giovanni (STEAMPROPULSION) about this,
since he had been a Hemmens dealer. It turns out that the engine I'd bought had once been Giovanni's.

He told me that the owner of Metafot, Lutz Heilscher,
also had a firm specialized in metal photo-etching,
where he manufactured the railing and other detail parts for the Adler with this process.

Lutz Heilscher was a great collector from Wüppertal, near Cologne,
and Giovanni visited him there, taking with him some Maxwell Hemmens engines.
Needles to say he liked them, so Hemmens and Heilscher made a deal to label Hemmens' procucts as METAFOT,
just as Oktant did with Stuart.

METAFOT was also selling WADA engines, turning the steam chest covers upside down so the W read as M.

The twin engine of the Adler and the three cylinder oscillating engine were done by Hemmens especially for METAFOT. The rest was standard Hemmens production.

johnreid · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject:

OOOOO, cant comment, I am drooling too much
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pauly · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject:

I love the fishbelly rails under the locomotives

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IndianaRog · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

What a handsome lot of engines...simply beautiful
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Burnmafingers · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject:

Wow, a whole room with lots of lovely stuff. a real steam shrine

logoman · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject:

I love the David Hicks style of the showroom, amazing.

duncandumpertruck · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject:

Thank you! Some great information that i didn't know about! I have the Traction engine but as a Maxwell Hemmens, i'd seen a metafot one for sale in Germany years ago and it had me scratching my head!

That's a tiny looking boiler on the cover of the second metafot catalouge!

davidcurtis021 · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

we saw some of these engines when bugsy and a few others including myself visited lutz heilscher in september phil and i had hold of the brittania and boy was that heavy.
well worth a visit and a real gentleman.

Atticman · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:

What a coincidence with Steampropulion once owning the engine

Thanks for the info-
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H2o vapour · Junior Member Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 473

Hi,

Some where I have an old Maxwell Hemmens advertising booklet showing most of these engines - late 70's early 80's as I recall.

They were certianly top end and very expensive, even at that time - do you think it's worth anything?

H2o

logoman · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject:

I would think so H2o. I like the catalogs, they bring an extra dimension to the engines.

jakesm · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:54 am Post subject:

the adler, amongst others, WOW

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Les · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:01 am Post subject:

Plenty to drool over there.

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dampfmaschinenjoe 1967 · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject:

I am a regular visitor and customer at Lutz Hielschers steam workshop : Last time I had been there it was at the annual steam gathering when David, Mirko, Klaus; Phil and Andreas had been there too. Lutz Hielscher did not even sell steam related things, when there are problems with steam engines you can´t fix yourself, he is willing help you out at reasonable prices. His new showroom/workshop is in an old blacksmith workshop and packed full with steam engines and classical tintoys. A nice and friendly place to be!

cheers Joe