My golly gosh.!!!

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This is a lot of cast iron in a model. Plus a heavy price tag to suit. **LINK**

Nick

Is the Green panel the ON Switch ?

MichaelG.

There are some areas of the country where that amount of money would buy a house.

It does look nice in a typical Victorian Engineering sort of way though.

Edited By V8Eng on 19/01/2016 00:04:08

Edited By V8Eng on 19/01/2016 00:04:43

A beautiful machine indeed.

I suppose if they wanted to display it in exhibition today it would have to be run on compressed air and proper bright yellow sheet-metal guards would have to encase that flywheel and all those flailing connecting rods, eccentric straps, ball governors and so forth.

It would make a nice basis for a smaller model though.

I see they've used hex head nuts. I couldn't find a date for the 'switch' from square to hex?

Just be very thankful it was not cheese head screws!

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This one is only 33 years younger:

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 19/01/2016 09:10:25

It would fit on the sideboard .........just , might need to strengthen the legs a bit though.

**LINK**

MichaelG.

There may be enough photo's for Jason to carve out one from scratch.

John

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Interesting flywheel construction:

The engraving (thanks MichaelG) shows a simple cast flywheel. In fact, lots of ornamentation for Lady Stephanie constructors to consider.

Thanks guys,

Rod

Hello All.

Two very interesting photos by Michael Gilligan.

This looks familiar, is this Papplewick pumping station (outside Nottingham) by any chance?

Alan.

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Yes it is

Its already been done a few times, I'll see if I can find a pic of the twin beam model.

Besides I've already got photos and measurements for a couple of Prestons other engines to tide me over

Edited By JasonB on 19/01/2016 13:32:12

A couple of engines.? ...................... Well at the rate you build them from scratch that should keep you busy until the end of this April at least.

Nick

Better get my finger out then as there are three hit & miss engines comming my way too

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Alan,

Yes ... a few more in my Papplewick Album