Product Description
This bronze wick feed oiler is beleived to be from an ex Somerset & Dorset Railway 7F 2-8-0 locomotive, OIleres like this were fitted to top slidebars and valve guides. A wick trimming would be inserted into the hole down the middle and the wick left to rest in the oil chamber, oil would soak through the wick and drop off the wick by gravity in the bore and then make its way to lubricate the crosshead or valve spindle. A very nice rare item measuring aroud 2 3/4" diameter with a 3/8" B.S.P. thread.