''Light Steam Power'' was a magazine dedicated to amateur and small-scale interest in
steam power
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans ...
. Its masthead for some years described itself as, ''"Authentic World News on Steam Power for Cars, Launches and Small Stationary Units"''.
Publishing history
The magazine was self-published by its editor John Ness Walton of
Kirk Michael
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Isle of Man
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. It began when he took over an earlier magazine, ''Steam Car Developments and Steam Marine Motors'' in 1945, renaming this in 1949.
For most of its existence it was published