| Year | 1955 |
| Date | 27-Oct |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 2,840 |
| Page | 607 |
| Category | Locomotive |
| Part | |
| Title | Prelude to a Loco |
| Author | LBSC |
| Notes | What tools to buy. Sixteen years with no complaint, machine tools required, an alternative to a drilling machine , home-made self-blowing gas blow-pipe, cheap scriber, the hand tools you will need, brazing forge, buy screwing-tackle in sets, for measuring and working out, some useful oddments, other home-made tools, tool-maker's cramp, the bench and vice, laying out the shop, a brazing and soldering outfit, begging for bits, a loco built in 43 days |