Energy Hall’s Machinery 8

This model was donated to its first owner as a thank you for “a job well done.” The donor was likely the Jakobsson engineering company, which was active in Aittaluoto, Pori between 1890 and 1959. They specialized in manufacturing locomotives used as power sources in agriculture.

The model has been handed down through three generations from Kokemäki to Helsinki. According to the donor, the model was gifted to August Julius Saurio, who was the director of the Kokemäki School for Farmers in the 1920s, as a thank you for his work in promoting steam engines. The scale model was lost when he moved from Kokemäki, but was returned to Saurio’s son in the 1940s, when the machine was also restored to working order. The model was donated to the Museum of Technology in the 1970s by Saurio’s grandson. The donor said that he himself had witnessed the testing of the machine’s functionality in Kulosaari, Helsinki.