Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2024
Date 03-May
Volume 232
Issue 4,742
Page 625
Category Automotive
Part
Title Hunslet's Scootacar. A good engineering idea at the time.
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Looks at Hunslet's foray into the motor car market. Hunslet 2-6-2 tank engine built for the Sierra Leone Government Railways climbing the 1 in 29 Golfa incline on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, model of a 500 HP Hunslet diesel loco presented to Hughie Wilkinson, Scootacar Mark 1 on loan to Armley Mills Industrial Museum Leeds from Stephen Boyd, Harold Brown, works former pattern shop, advert for the De Luxe Mark II version, works photo of the Mark II, what happened to the Scootacar?, Hunslet diversification, Scootacars today, further reading, places to visit, thanks to