Hello!

Hello from West Devon.

I'm in Tavistock, and am the Company Secretary of The Robey Trust....

One of my personal projects is building a model of a Robey Tandem Roller.... I shall endeavour to share my current progress etc on a more relevant part of the forum.....

Hi Naomi.

Welcome to the forum, look forward to seeing your progress reports.

V8.

On the modelling side are you a member of the Plymouth club? There is also the new Exeter club to drop in on if you are travelling east to Lincoln

Hello Naomi, welcome to the forum. (I live in Sydney, Australia).

As secretary of the Robey trust, you may be interested in one of the engines which is owned by our club. Not exactly a model, it is 12 inches to the foot scale.

Robey 25hp, Class A DC, Portable, Locomotive Type boiler

Twin cylinder double acting 12” Bore x 18“ Stroke

110 RPM, 6’ 6” Flywheel x 13” wide,

Weight = 12 tonne

Original boiler pressure 120 psi, Current operating pressure = 80 psi.

Manufactured by Robey & Co, an engineering company established in 1854 at Lincoln, England, specialising in steam driven machinery for industry and agriculture.

Robert Robey started business in 1854, manufacturing portable steam engines and thrashing machines. His range of agricultural equipment rapidly expanded; in the Great Exhibition of 1862 " fixed engines, traction engines, ploughing tackle, corn mills, saw benches etc" were on display and soon a complete range of mining equipment was on offer from winding and pumping engines to locomotives, cages and kibbles.

Imported into Australian by agent, Arthur Leplastrier & Co. of Sydney,

This Machine was used to drive ore crushers and water pumps used in a Tin Mine at Tingha, a mining town in the north of New South Wales, Australia.The water pumps operated at around 35psi and the water was pumped through pressure nozzles to remove materials from the mine this was called Hydraulic Mining.

Owned by the Maitland Steam & Antique Machinery Association