Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	140	Locomotive	20	A Five-Inch Gauge 0-4-0 Padarn Railway Tender Locomotive (Fire Queen)	Luker	Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. The whee... more Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. The wheels and shafts, the spring assembly, tender shaft, axlebox cover and axlebox, axleboxes
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	144	Trade		We Visit EKP Supplies	Martin Evans	Visits Barnstable and finds more nuts, screws and washers than you can shak... more Visits Barnstable and finds more nuts, screws and washers than you can shake a spanner at. Model Engineer cover May 17th 1996, the EKP team, Alistair, Dean Michael, Lyn, Helen, Alan, the front office and reception area - Dean, Lyn and Helen, Michael's 6 inch Burrell road roller, bar stock, bagging area, whatever size, bar turning machine in action, Michael explains Alan observes, smaller items, 'specials', Kennions catalogue, stock, patterns and locomotive drawings, retail catalogue, photographs by the author and Jocelyn Fung, references, see 176 4017 551
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	148	General	2	The View from Butterside Down - Kicking Things Off	Steve Goodbody	The Million Pound Paperweight. Takes a random walk through model engineerin... more The Million Pound Paperweight. Takes a random walk through model engineering. An etched brass works plate by our Deputy Editor [Diane Carney], a costly mistake, the smoking gun
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	150	Stationary Engine	1	K.N.Harris Beam Engine	Geoff Walker	Revisits a beam engine first described in Model Engineer in 1946. Introduct... more Revisits a beam engine first described in Model Engineer in 1946. Introduction - the 1946 KNH engine, rear view of the 2023 engine, front cover of the KNH book, the 2023 KNH engine, beam and piston rod couplings, the Watt linkages, main bearing assembly, main bearing block, see 94 2337 184
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	153	Stationary Engine	2	Biscuit Tin Steam Engine	Tony Bird	Says you never know what you might find in an old biscuit tin. Pipe bending... more Says you never know what you might find in an old biscuit tin. Pipe bending jig, warm-up valve, feed pump, unions to connect external steam and water pipes to the steam engine
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	158	Agricultural	1	1934 McDonald Tractor - A working one-fourth scale model	George Punter	Is drawn to another tractor project. Side view, the other side, flywheel an... more Is drawn to another tractor project. Side view, the other side, flywheel and cooling fab, front view
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	160	Railway		Class 128 Parcels Van	Ivan Smith	Completes a model begun nearly 30 years ago. The author, centre section, en... more Completes a model begun nearly 30 years ago. The author, centre section, entertaining visitors, general view
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	162	Locomotive	36	LNER B1 Locomotive	Doug Hewson	Blow Down Valve and Vacuum Exhaust Elbow. Presents an authentic 5 inch gaug... more Blow Down Valve and Vacuum Exhaust Elbow. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompson's most successful locomotive. Blow down valve, blower valve, live steam injector, steam pipe bush, vacuum exhaust elbow, 'C' nuts, everlasting blowdown valve casting set, washout plug
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	166	Nautical	5	Hercules A twin cylinder compound condensing marine steam engine	Chris Walter	Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Valve chests, c... more Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Valve chests, covers and glands, valves, expansion links and cut off adjusters
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	170	Competition		Announcing LittleLEC 2024	Martin Cooper	North London SME invites you to compete in this year's competition. LittleL... more North London SME invites you to compete in this year's competition. LittleLEC 2024, Tyttenhanger elevated main line [profile]
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Few or no newsletters to review
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Club News		Esk Valley MES
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Smoke Rings		Sydney LSLS		David Judex's guard's van (Photo from Newsletter)
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Club News		Pickering EEMS
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Club News		Guildford MES
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	172	Club News		Old Locomotive Committee
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	173	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Frank Rothwell's steam Land-Rover (Photo courtesy of Frank Rothwell), Walli... more Frank Rothwell's steam Land-Rover (Photo courtesy of Frank Rothwell), Wallis & Steevens Simplicity roller under the skin at MMEX [by Richard Folwell?]
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	173	Club News		Stamford MES
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	173	Club News		Welling DMES
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	174	Club News		Steam Apprentice Club
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	174	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Atkinson 'Borderer' at SY [South Yorkshire?] Transport Museum, a 'Big Yello... more Atkinson 'Borderer' at SY [South Yorkshire?] Transport Museum, a 'Big Yellow Taxi' it is not, unidentified baler working at MMEX, Town Hall in Rotherham
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	174	Club News		Worthing DSME
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	174	Club News		Gauge 3 Society
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	174	Club News		And finally		The Three Wise Men, Henry
	2024	12-Jan	232	4,734	175	Diary		Club Diary
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	63	On the cover …		T3 class locomotive by William Adams		Seen on the Swanage Railway (photo Matt MacManus)
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		Happy New Year!
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		SM&EE		In Club News
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		Butterside Down		Steve Goodbody
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		Flying Scotsman		Peter Seymour-Howell
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		One Man's Junk …		Tony Bird's biscuit tin
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	68	Smoke Rings		Club Secretaries
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	69	Personal		Engineering's Local Heroes - William Adams of London and Genoa	Roger Backhouse	Tells the story of one of the best of the late Victorian locomotive enginee... more Tells the story of one of the best of the late Victorian locomotive engineers. Book cover - William Adams: His Life and Locomotives, joining the Sardinian Navy, North London Railway and Bow works, Adams LSWR 4-4-2 tank engine by Martyn Blackburn of York Model Engineers, Great Eastern times, revitalising Nine Elms, Adams' vortex blast pipe, 0-4-4 tank engine Calbourne on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (Photo, John Faulkner 2022), T3 class no. 563 on the Swanage Railway (Photo Matt MacManus 2023), LSWR Royal Saloon, Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway, Steve Middleton's Stately Trains fleet, locomotives and carriages in preservation, family and personal life, acknowledgements, references
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	72	Workshop	7	A New Workshop	Peter Seymour-Howell	Builds a new workshop before continuing work on Flying Scotsman. Spray Boot... more Builds a new workshop before continuing work on Flying Scotsman. Spray Booth, brazing hearth, general view, WM300T lathe, Flying Scotsman awaits attention
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	75	Nautical	4	Hercules A twin cylinder compound condensing marine steam engine	Chris Walter	Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Connecting rods... more Builds an engine described in Model Engineer 100 years ago. Connecting rods, crossheads and piston rods, top cylinder covers, bottom cylinder covers and piston rod glands
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	80	Electrical		Emergency lights for your workshop?	Julian Sturdy	Looks at ways of keeping the lights on. Candles are not the only option.
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	83	Workshop		Repairing a Carpet Cleaner	Roger Backhouse	'Makes do' and mends. The cleaner, disaster, could it be repaired? Experime... more 'Makes do' and mends. The cleaner, disaster, could it be repaired? Experiments with Marmite, making the lever - trial and error
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	85	Book Review		Colonel Stephens - Light Railway Locomotives	Brian Janes	Cue for very old railway joke. Review by Roger Backhouse
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	87	Railway		CDSME'S Dynamometer Car	Brendan Gill	Makes his own dynamometer car on a tight budget. Force. I.e. drawbar pull, ... more Makes his own dynamometer car on a tight budget. Force. I.e. drawbar pull, load cell amplifier, rotary encoder, speed, computer , display and buttons, data storage, electronics wiring design, construction, Chichester DSME
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	90	Railway	3	The Richmond Light Railway - A Kentish Treasure	Mark Smithers	Visits a two foot gauge railway in Kent. Internal combustion locomotives, r... more Visits a two foot gauge railway in Kent. Internal combustion locomotives, rolling stock
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	91	Book Review		Making and Using Small Workshop Tools	Neil Wyatt	Review by Roger Backhouse
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	92	Postbag		4QD	Colin Standish
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	92	Postbag		Boiler Feeds	Doug Hewson
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	92	Postbag		Cherry Hill	Gerard Dean
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	92	Postbag		Angle Plate	Neil G.Heppenstall
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	93	Locomotive	19	A Five-Inch Gauge 0-4-0 Padarn Railway Tender Locomotive (Fire Queen)	Luker	Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. Tender c... more Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. Tender chassis, the frames, the spring hangers, the horn plates, the buffer beam assembly
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	97	Club		We Visit the Huddersfield Society of Model Engineers	John Arrowsmith	Visits a long-established club established on two sites. President Richard ... more Visits a long-established club established on two sites. President Richard Lyons, Golden Jubilee, David and Mike Lockwood
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	100	General	1	The View from Butterside Down - Kicking Things Off	Steve Goodbody	Takes a random walk through model engineering. Getting on with it, a ray of... more Takes a random walk through model engineering. Getting on with it, a ray of light, the electromagnetic spectrum, midday, sunset
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	102	Automotive		Customising Model Cars	Henk-Jan de Ruiter	Finds there's more to model cars than 'Vroom, vroom, vroom!'. Upgrade kit c... more Finds there's more to model cars than 'Vroom, vroom, vroom!'. Upgrade kit catalogues for 1:1 scale motor cars, modified Marklin Metal Mercedes SSK, another with smoke generator, YouTube, Instagram, Websites
	2024	29-Dec	232	4,733	104	Stationary Engine	1	Biscuit Tin Steam Engine	Tony Bird	Says you never know what you might find in an old biscuit tin
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