| Year | 1937 |
| Date | 23-Dec |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1,911 |
| Page | 617 |
| Category | Educational |
| Part | |
| Title | First Steps in Model Engineering. Workshop Advice, Experience and Philosophy for Readers of all Ages |
| Author | "Inchometer" |
| Notes | Retrospective to No. 1 of the "Model Engineer", made from scrap: an ingenious belt-fastener, about various driving belts, rats and gut belts, the old-time vertical engine, producing eccentric straps by E.W.Lewis, the two model beam engines, making a model fort gun, commencement: buying a lathe, Russian fort-gun by E.W.Lewis (photo by S.J.Dannah), forming the trunnions, wheel and axle, boring the barrel, the gun showing proportions, a hobby: modelling old-time guns, carriage side frame |