Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	696	General	11	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	Hauling the Toys - Part 1. Takes a random walk through model engineering. T... more Hauling the Toys - Part 1. Takes a random walk through model engineering. Thoughts collected, locomotive Jennifer Ann (Photo credit: Helen Munro), Ruby Swann & cargo van (Photo credit: Emma Goodbody), in the beginning…, enclosed cargo trailer )Photo credit: Haulmark / American Cargo Group), little boxes, plan view simplifications, open-topped aluminium-framed trailer (Photo credit: Legend Premium Trailers), postscript to part 11
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	700	Workshop	2	Re-designing a Gas Burner	Graham Astbury	Describes how he updated an old design. Aerated gas burners, Bunsen burner,... more Describes how he updated an old design. Aerated gas burners, Bunsen burner, typical domestic boiler, burner port loading, air holes, testing, re-designed burner for propane gas, discussion, commercial town gas Bunsen burner, conclusions, reference
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	705	Horology	2	An Admiralty Case for a Regulator	Adrian Garner	Makes a simple but good-looking case for a regulator timepiece. Hood, hood ... more Makes a simple but good-looking case for a regulator timepiece. Hood, hood door, top, hood side handles, reference
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	709	Locomotive	6	Building 3020 Cornwall in 5 Inch Gauge	Jim Clark	Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservat... more Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservation. The cab and finishing details, nameplate and wheel splasher, side view, complete model, Cornwall at Shildon in 2009
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	712	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Why is the sea salty?
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	712	Club News		Gauge 1 MRA		QJ conversion (photo courtesy of Peter Krattiger), Chattenden (photo courte... more QJ conversion (photo courtesy of Peter Krattiger), Chattenden (photo courtesy of Robert Postlethwaite), Krupp Steam crane (photo courtesy of Henk Wierenga)
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	712	Club News		Pickering EEMS
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	713	Club News		Warrington DMES
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	713	Club News		York City DSME
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	713	Club News		Bournemouth DSME
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	713	Club News		Stamford MES		Wine?
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	713	Club News		Ottawa Valley LSME (Can)		Graham's 'hoiker' frame and locomotive
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	714	Club News		Welling DMES
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	714	Club News		Leeds SMEE
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	714	Club News		Esk Valley MES
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	715	Diary		Club Diary
	2024	17-May	232	4,743	715	Club News		And finally		Why can't penguins fly?
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	603	On the cover …		Adam Heslop's winding engine by David Hulse		To one sixteenth scale (photo by David Hulse)
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	608	Smoke Rings		Atmospheric Engines
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	608	Smoke Rings		Thermodynamics and More
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	609	Horology	1	An Admiralty Case for a Regulator	Adrian Garner	Makes a simple but good-looking case for a regulator timepiece. The complet... more Makes a simple but good-looking case for a regulator timepiece. The completed admiralty case, examples of published construction series (see 232 4744 728), general arrangement, construction, base with hood and regulator Examples of published construction series, the completed admiralty case, the base with the hood and regulator movement removed, general arrangement, construction, C beams and securing nuts, base, reference
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	612	Club		SMEE News. Conserving a Large Single Cylinder Mill Engine	Martin Kyte	Has the latest from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. A sing... more Has the latest from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. A single cylinder mill engine built by Mr H.C.Roughton
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	614	Exhibition		The Midlands Garden Rail Show	John Arrowsmith	Catches up with what is going on in the smaller gauges. Midsomer Norton lay... more Catches up with what is going on in the smaller gauges. Midsomer Norton layout, GWR King, Hampton End, 16mm Association modular layout, Pen-Y-Bont railway, Thomas Trackwork layout, Lough MPD layout, 'LION' models (Bromsgrove), Coventry MES, 3 1/2"g. 'Tich' & Class 8 shunter by Terry Timms, 45mm LEGO model by Harry (Bromsgrove), a Cornish engine model & locomotives and stock (Gauge 3 Society), G Scale layout, 7mm scale goods yard, Adams Tank 4-4-2 Blackgang, Gauge 2 LNWR 4-6-2 loco and train
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	619	Locomotive	5	Building 3020 Cornwall in 5 Inch Gauge	Jim Clark	Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservat... more Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservation. Making the boiler, end elevations
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	625	Automotive		Hunslet's Scootacar. A good engineering idea at the time.	Roger Backhouse	Looks at Hunslet's foray into the motor car market. Hunslet 2-6-2 tank engi... more 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
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	629	Stationary Engine		Atmospheric Engines of the Eighteenth Century	David Hulse	Presents the series of models he has made of early steam engines. The Newco... more Presents the series of models he has made of early steam engines. The Newcomen engine, the Smethwick Engine, the Pickard and Wasborough Engine, James Watt's Lap Engine, the Arnold Engine, the Lambeth Engine, the Pentrich Engine, Adam Heslop and the William Pit winding engine of 1806. more information
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	633	Locomotive	2	A Look at Locomotive 030 T 8157	Rhys Owen	Visits a post-war locomotive made in France based on a German design. Locom... more Visits a post-war locomotive made in France based on a German design. Locomotive air brake cylinder, right-hand return crank, left-hand expansion link and balance pipe, left-hand cylinder and crosshead etc., inside smokebox, exhaust steam pipes leading to underside of smokebox, right-hand side balance beam axles 1 and 2, blowdown exit, blow down valve and reverser spring, right-hand tank washout doors, sand dome and valves, clack valves with water connection
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	637	Stationary Engine	3	A Twin Tandem Compound Steam Engine	Graeme Quayle	Presents his own design for a compound winding engine. Valve chests, covers... more Presents his own design for a compound winding engine. Valve chests, covers and slide valves, port face and steam pipes
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	641	Workshop	2	Re-designing a Gas Burner	Graham Astbury	Describes how he updated an old design. British Standard jets, other jets, ... more Describes how he updated an old design. British Standard jets, other jets, the original burner, reference
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	643	General	10	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	Privilege and Joy. Takes a random walk through model engineering. The givin... more Privilege and Joy. Takes a random walk through model engineering. The giving of joy, hidden gems, a group of ramblers, Stanier Black Five Eric Treacy at Whitby station, the unexpected invitation, the simple pleasures, fleeting moments, old friends, a fully clothed dip in the sea, a deer and a diesel, Bert Perryman's Remembrance at the NRM, John Hart up's Kitson-Meyer, Roy Amesbury's Deltic
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	647	Locomotive	44	LNER B1 Locomotive	Doug Hewson	The Side Platforms. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompson'... more The Side Platforms. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompson's B1 locomotive. Front platform, side platforms, fillet beneath the cab, B1 lamp irons, front steps, grab rail, lamp iron, sand box filler, dimpling press tool, press tools and dimpled plates, sand box filler
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	652	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		TARDIS, Theasby's Amateur Radio Discussion and Intellect Site, Deb's fat li... more TARDIS, Theasby's Amateur Radio Discussion and Intellect Site, Deb's fat lip, Nick Baines, Gauge 3 Society, David Keeling, 'Lynx' helicopter at Bodo Air Museum, Bell Iroquois UH-1, rotor rota?
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	652	Club News		Stockholes Farm MR
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	652	Club News		Bristol MEE
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	652	Club News		Halesworth DMES		Joe Izzard's 'Raleigh car' (Photo courtesy of Julie Williams), (see 232 474... more Joe Izzard's 'Raleigh car' (Photo courtesy of Julie Williams), (see 232 4744 728)
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	653	Club News		British Columbia SME (Can)		Paul's painting (Photo courtesy of Paul Ohannisian)
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	653	Club News		Worthing DSME		Earl Grey of Fallodon
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	653	Club News		Steam Apprentice Club		IoM Foden (Raising Steam; photo courtesy of Tom Attwood), Britannia advert ... more IoM Foden (Raising Steam; photo courtesy of Tom Attwood), Britannia advert provided by the editor
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	653	Club News		2 1/2 Inch Gauge Society [National 2 1/2in. Gauge Association?]
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	654	Club News		Sheffield DSMEE		Two US locomotives: One's a 'Shay' and one … isn't. (Photo courtesy of Adam... more Two US locomotives: One's a 'Shay' and one … isn't. (Photo courtesy of Adam Diskin), Pete Nash (Photo courtesy of Mick Savage)
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	654	Club News		Gauge 1 North, Yorkshire Group [Gauge 1 MRA North Yorkshire Group?]
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	654	Club News		And finally		The Thespians, locomotive driver had stage fright
	2024	03-May	232	4,742	655	Diary		Club Diary
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	543	On the cover …		A Type 231 Pacific of the Chemins de Fer du Nord hauls the Golden Arrow tra... more A Type 231 Pacific of the Chemins de Fer du Nord hauls the Golden Arrow train up Caffiers Bank near Calais		From the cover of Model Engineer October 1927
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	548	Smoke Rings		Changing Times
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	548	Smoke Rings		Bradford Cup
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	548	Smoke Rings		IMLEC
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	549	Stationary Engine	2	A Twin Tandem Compound Steam Engine	Graeme Quayle	Presents his own design for a compound winding engine. Low pressure cylinde... more Presents his own design for a compound winding engine. Low pressure cylinder, high pressure cylinder, cylinder covers and joiner section, cylinder covers and trunk guide
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	554	Historic	2	A Visit to the Crossness Engines	Robert Hobbs	Visits a preserved pumping station in south East London. Model of the revis... more Visits a preserved pumping station in south East London. Model of the revised engine configuration, main beam and pivot, Prince consort, Alexandra, Ray Fleming, Victoria's Porter governor, fish scale pattern
	2024	19-Apr	232	4,741	557	Locomotive	4	Building 3020 Cornwall in 5 Inch Gauge	Jim Clark	Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservat... more Builds the famous LNWR 2-2-2 - the first locomotive earmarked for preservation. The smokebox
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