This is an unassembled casting kit for an Elmer Wall 4-cylinder water-cooled gas engine. It was donated to the museum by Tim Mundt, who included engineered drawings and blueprints for the scale model engine. Elmer Wall (1870–1947) offered several different types of engines as casting kits, some of which can still be found today. Mr. Wall’s engines were very popular, and a handful of examples crafted by different builders can be found throughout the Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum (e.g. Wall Wizard and Wall Duplex Mariner). In fact, this unassembled kit is on display near a finished version of the same Wall water-cooled engine built by Russell Anderson. With Mr. Mundt’s unfinished kit and Mr. Anderson’s finished engine on display together, viewers can get a sense of just how many parts needed to be machined and assembled to make this miniature Wall engine run. The casting kit is from around the 1940s. The engineered blueprint can be seen behind the unfinished kit.
