Model Engineer Index 1898 onwards

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	731	On the cover …		10 1/4"g. GWR 1400 class locomotive and 'Toad' guard's van		Seen at the Midlands show (photo: John Arrowsmith)
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Cock-up Corner		Rhys Owen. Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. See 233 4756 70... more Rhys Owen. Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. See 233 4756 708
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Rochdale		Rochdale's young members show off their certificates, Bob Hayter
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		LOWMEX		Clive Randlesome's Fowler showman's engine guards the entrance at LOWMEX
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Old Engine		Peter Bill, does anyone recognise this old engine?
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	739	Locomotive	8	A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine	Doug Hewson	Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Dr... more Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Driving and coupled wheels, pony truck wheels, axles, BR Standard Mogul 76033 (photo: The Transport Treasury), 76064 (photo: Rail Online), full size driving wheel - with 16 spokes
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	744	Nautical	2	A Radial Marine Steam Engine	Ian Couchman	Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crosshead g... more Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crosshead guides, big ends and con rods
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	748	Book Review		Completing the Quintet. The fifth edition of Brian Reading's photographs wi... more Completing the Quintet. The fifth edition of Brian Reading's photographs with computer based restoration by Ian Reading	Brian Reading and Ian Reading	Review by Brian Baker
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	750	Historic	64	The Stationary Steam Engine	Ron Fitzgerald	Builders 2: Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Takes a look at the histor... more Builders 2: Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. Trade card for David Whitehead's Soho Foundry, Ancoats, Manchester, Soho Foundry, Ancoats acquired by Peel, Williams, Joshua Field's sketch plan of Fawcet Littledale's Coalbrookdale Foundry in 1821, references
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	753	Locomotive	6	A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge	Gerald Martyn	Buffers and Hooks. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Buffer h... more Buffers and Hooks. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Buffer head and stock, draw hook
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	756	Stationary Engine	4	Unseizing a Beam Engine	Mitch Barnes	Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had bec... more Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had become seized up at some point in its past.
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Escapements	Andre Rousseau
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Nelly The Copter	Steve Goodbody
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Modern Methods	Dave Robinson
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		New Workshop	Mike Joseph
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	761	Postbag		Trevithick's Engines	Alan Cox
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	761	Postbag		Tool Panel	Mike Joseph	St. Albans MES
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	762	Personal		Engineering's Local Heroes - Dr William Harland and Sir Edward James Harlan... more Engineering's Local Heroes - Dr William Harland and Sir Edward James Harland of Scarborough	Roger Backhouse	Tells the story of a remarkable father and son. Encouraging scientific disc... more Tells the story of a remarkable father and son. Encouraging scientific discussion, dentures made by Dr William Harland from Hippopotamus teeth, Scarborough's Rotunda Museum, Dr Harland's engineering interests, model of steam carriage invented by Dr Harland in 1827 (photo © Scarborough Museum and Galleries), replica of Sir George Cayley's 'governable parachute', White Star steamship Oceanic (photo: Wilkipedia [Wikipedia?] Creative Commons), statue of Sir Edward Harland outside Belfast City Hall, Sir Edward James Harland, thanks to
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	765	General	25	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	The Unassailable Power of Reason. Takes a random walk through model enginee... more The Unassailable Power of Reason. Takes a random walk through model engineering. Perpendicularity, a randomly-drawn right-angled triangle, a hefty clout of logic, it's all Greek to me …, Pythagoras by pictures, postscript to part 25
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	768	Stationary Engine	8	A Tandem Compound Mill Engine	David Thomas	Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. A general assembly sk... more Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. A general assembly sketch, coupling rods and rod ends, fulcrum brackets, rockers and rocker pins
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