French minivap paddler engine.

[Walter Snowdon]

Hello folks. Quite a long time ago there was athread on a reasonably priced small twin paddler engine and boiler for the small French Minivap class of model. Is the manufacturer still around?. if so does anyone know if the paddler engine is still available. Regards, Walter

[Brian Gates]

Did you mean the Hielscher Andreas Walter?

http://www.ministeam.com/acatalog/Hielscher1-2.html
Scroll down past the Andreas engine for the paddle wheel set and boilers.

It rather depends on your definition of reasonably priced though, although the EUR prices are a little better:
http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/en/Hielscher-Steam-Engines/Steam-Models

A bit late coming back to you, but I just found the engine and remembered your query.

All the best
Brian Gates
Gillingham

[kno3]

You are probably asking about the Anton Quartz horizontal engine, by Fabrice Bretagne (of France):
https://www.google.ro/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffabrice.bretagne.perso.neuf.fr%2F&ei=lB9WU_jeBMnnygOv54GgDw&usg=AFQjCNFuRAk03o7O3JKsX8TUxeJQyRzI-w&bvm=bv.65177938,d.bGQ