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Reports on competition results from the Midlands show. Class 2: Locomotives - 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch gauges, Class 3: Locomotives - 5 and 7 1/4 inch gauges and above, Simon Dawson's 3 1/2"g. Tich locomotive, 2 1/2"g. LSWR T3 Class 4-4-0 locomotive by Nick Baines, 7 1/4"g. 0-4-2 locomotive Lion by Jon Swindlehurst, Class 4: Rolling stock etc. any gauge, Guy Harding's Metropolitan Railway 14 ton ballast brake van, LMS 20T brake van by David Calvert, H.Berry & Co. Ltd. double tandem compound hydraulic pumping engine & Clayton & Goodfellow cross compound engine & the Wasp Mill Corliss tandem steam engine all by Mick Keenan, John Wing's mill engine, Class 5: Stationary engines, two cylinder double sided beam engine by John Wakeling, Class 6: Steam road vehicles (static), Class 7: Machine tools & workshop equipment, Neil Madden's 4 inch scale Burrell, scratch built tool & cutter grinder by Wally Sykes, optical dividing head by John Tickner, Class 8: Internal combustion engines, Class 9: Horological, scientific and automata, skeleton clock by Michael Havard, 1:8 Galway Hooker sailing boat by Tony Judd, a Victorian horse drawn builder's van by Chris Briggs, 1:8.5 Westland Whirlwind helicopter by Glen Davis, Class 10: Marine models - scale (over 50% scratch built), Class 11: Marine models - kit (standard or modified), Class 12: Model horse drawn vehicles, Class 13: Scale model aircraft, Class 14: Young engineers award (under 20 years of age, Class 15: Miscellaneous, Lancashire boiler by Mick Keenan, six cylinder oscillating engine in a triangular configuration by Ralph Thompson, the Penny Farthing bicycle by John Wakeling, Class 16: Hot air engines, Fosseway Steamers Prize to Davinder Singh Mathara |