Preserved Stationary Steam Engines in Turkey, 2026

Thomas Kautzor presents his first formal reports of the Rahmi M Koç Museum, Istanbul since May 2016 together with other attractions there.

Given that some elements will be of more interest than others to visitors to these pages, I have broken them down into smaller sections.

• Click here for the introduction and Preserved Steamships in Turkey, 2026

• Click here for Preserved Steam Locomotives in Turkey, 2026

• Click here for Preserved Steam Road Engines in Turkey, 2026.

• Click here for Thomas's May 2016 report..

• Click here for the Surviving Steam Road Engines index.

• Click here for the International Stationary Steam Engines page.

Chris Hodrien wrote detailed notes after his 2005 visit, you can access his own report by clicking here. It has rather more detail than what follows here which is largely taken from the museum's own signage.

			Notes
			Chris described this engine as 'anonymous'.
			This appears to be a classic oil engine from Ruston (Lincoln), England
			The plate on the engine reads: "Societe Anonyme les Nouvelles Usines, Bollinckx, 1927" I cannot decipher the number. The company appears to have been based in Buysinghen / Buizingen in Belgium.
			Described as "a steam cabling machine, built in 1922 and from the British vessel SS 'John McKay'
			Steam powered windlass, built by Clarke Chapman & Co Ltd in England in the 1930s.
			Steam capstan, built by Clarke Chapman & Co Ltd in England in the 1940s.
			Steam steering engine, this engine was used on the steam tug 'Gonca' for transporting inputs from yje ship's wheel to the rudder. \it was made in the 2930s by Stapfer, Duclos & Cie. Marseille.
			Steam steering engine, built by Donkin & Co. Ltd, Newcastle on Tyne, England and taken from the SS 'Bogdan Khmelnitsky'.
			Steam powered steering engine, made by vocational students from Izmir. It was training exercise and is on loan from Yildiz Technical University.
			Vertical simplex HP steam pump, oil. water or other liquid. Mid 20th century,
			Double acting air pump, British 1950. Used in the engine roomto pump the air and water in the condenser and increase the vacuum and let the water to pass onto the hot valve (???).
			Horizontal flat rope sheave winder by Schneider of Le Creusot and worked the cable hauled Galatea Tramway in Istanbul.
			The I and E Greenwald steam engine was built in Cincinati, Ohio in 1906. It is a hoizontal cross compound engine and weighs 62 tons. The flywheel is 16' in diameter and weighs 16 tons. One of the unique features of this engine is the American style or continuous rope drive power transmission system. The engine transmits its power by a 1½" diameter rope, 1200' long. It develops 750HP at 36rpm. The power is transmitted throughout the factory by this rope drive system. The engine provided 56 years of continuous service to the Beaumont Rice Mill in Beaumont, Texas. It was moved to Miami in 1984. It was registered as a historical object in 1987 by the US Park Service. Kindly donated by Finlay B. and transported, restore\d and installed by the Rahmi M. Koc for Museology and Culture.
			Bopp and Reuther, Mannheim and worked at the Elmali Dam, south-east of Istanbul. Click here for information and further pictures.