| Year | 1975 |
| Date | 19-Dec |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue | 3,527 |
| Page | 1,216 |
| Category | Historic |
| Part | |
| Title | 'It often began at Christmas' |
| Author | Basil Harley |
| Notes | Three German vertical engines from the 1920s, workshop toys and overhead shafting about 1900, a Bing engine driving a watermill, steam Edwardian torpedo boat, German 0-4-0 locomotive with Hornby rolling stock, "pop-pop" launch by Jetcraft, early 1930s |