Bassett Lowke 1.5" Burrell Plans Required

The 6NHP in the same scale that Avery used to do would make a nice one Rod, better drawings and a silver soldered boiler as well. Its a SCC so compound but single throw crank, like a Devonshire.

J

I have a bassett lowke Burrell traction engine for sale on eBay at the moment, it's a real wreck and I couldn't afford to buy a new boiler as it has two shallow dents one either side of boiler

Happy new year all, I am new to this world its been my passion from a very young age to own my own traction engine. I have just got myself a 1.5 Burrell off eBay. It needed a lot of work doing to it so i thought I would give it a go. It came with all the plans, well i think they are the right ones. I have stripped it down taking many photos along the way, I am not shore the the boiler that is the correct one. Could anybody give me a name of some ware I could get a new one from or made, Many thanks.

Helen at Western Steam does very good boilers, you could also try Southern Boilerworks.

Don't expect the boiler by return, they have long waiting lists upto 12months

J

There is a photo of one in my album being built without castings and with silver soldered boiler. Colin

Good Day, my name is Michael and i am from western germany. I bought a 1.5 scale traction engine from burrell which is finished 50 %. i am looking for drawings to finish it. can anyone help me ? pdf is fine , i can pay upfront.

thank you, Michael

Hi I realise these post are a bit old but I have only just seen them , I am building a 11/2 Burell Bassett lowke from bar stock I couldnt get any castings, I have all the drawings, Scaned them down to a A4 size for each bit, so quite a lot. Some of the drawings are wrong so if anybody is still building this engine I can offer some corrections.

But I also have a query on the spectacle plate the drawing shows a square hole with a notch above but what is this for ?

If you still require drawings i could send them just ask

ATB Alan

I think it is for a flat belt which in the full size would go to the governor but in the model would go on the pulley between the eccentrics and the dummy pulley on the displacement lubricator.

I am building this model and agree that the drawings are full of errors and lacking in detail. I have a copy of the old Lion 3" Burrell drawings which are a doubling up of the Bassett-Lowke drawings and these have more detail. I also have a copy of the 1 1/2" Allchin drawings and these are also useful for things like draincocks.

Richard

any chance of a copy of your drawing of the specticale plate and front plate please

The drawings I use are scanned in versions of the originals and originally I made the plates to these plans but once I started trial assembly of the cylinder and motion I found the holes were in the wrong place so I remade them to fit the eccentrics and connecting rod! Also I re-designed the boiler to have separate hornplates so the width between the hornplates was different to that on the plans.

Richard