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Thread: R Chambers Locomotive Boilers
06/09/2021 14:08:38

Check out the earlier chat titled Boiler Maker Identification it talks about Reg.

Thread: Boiler maker identification
15/06/2021 12:21:54

I have owned but subsequently sold a 3 1/2 inch gauge Britannia which had a Reg Chambers made boiler serial nuber RC355 which the paperwork clearly shows was delivered ito the purchaser n April 1972.

so clearly Reg had a serial numbering system which had some logic to it that we as yet can't fathom

the following is from some notes i prepared for a nomograph on my 3 1/2 inch gauge Pacific collection:

"When stripped down a boiler builder’s code “RC355” was discovered at the base of the
backhead. Certainly the original workmanship seemed to indicate a professional builder. Some querying
of dealers in the UK and a subsequent web search revealed that the boiler was built by a Reg Chambers
of Model Steam Boiler Specialists in Weymouth. He delivered the boiler to his customer a W. J.
Robinson of Wimborne Minster in Dorset on 13th April 1972 for a price of £57.00 (approximately £500.00
in 2005 £. The boiler was silver soldered throughout, pressure tested to 160 lb/sq in. and given an
insurance industry test certificate number 158. Reg took care to see that no surplus solder was left inside
the boiler especially around the firebox.

Born in 1931, Reg has lived in the UK all his life apart from 3 years in the late sixties when he and
his wife lived in Australia. Reg was a very well regarded professional boiler builder who indicates he was
the first builder to put their “signature” and a serial no. on their boilers to enable tracing the records and
provenance of individual boilers. This proved correct when I called Reg in September 2007, he was able
to put his finger on all this information in the course of the brief phone call. Reg’s personal interest was in
traction engines and he built several, the last of which is to go to his daughter. When he retired from
professional boiler making in 1990 he was charging £400-500 for a new boiler."

in hindsight i should have asked him about his numbering system when i talked to him 14 years ago. My guess is that Reg has unfrotunately passed away.

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