Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	352	Club News		SM&EE
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	352	Club News		Nottingham SMEE		Steve Andrews and his LNER V2
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	352	Club News		Reading SME		Nigel Ball with his 7 1/4 inch gauge Sweet William at the Sheffield Sweet P... more Nigel Ball with his 7 1/4 inch gauge Sweet William at the Sheffield Sweet Pea Rally
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	353	Club News		St Albans DMES		Tree protection at the St. Albans Puffing Field track
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	353	Club News		Leeds SMEE		Collage of the block instrument repair
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	353	Club News		Bristol SMEE		LNWR firehole door fitting by Peter Everet
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	354	Club News		Gauge 1 MRA Yorkshire Group
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	354	Club News		Stockholes Farm MR
	2023	25-Aug	231	4,724	355	Diary		Club Diary
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	243	On the cover …		A pair of cylinders for Fire Queen		Luker's five-inch gauge Welsh slate quarry locomotive (photo: Luker)
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	248	Smoke Rings		IMLEC		Richard Siddall, Leyland SME
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	248	Smoke Rings		Weeting Rally		A Fowler showman's engine supplying electricity to the dodgems, a fairgroun... more A Fowler showman's engine supplying electricity to the dodgems, a fairground organ, extensive music library (photos Jocelyn Fung)
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	248	Smoke Rings		POG Rally		Polly Owners' Group, Rugby Model Engineering Society
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	249	An Engineer's Day Out	1	Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum and the Ken Hawley Collection	Roger Backhouse	Returns to Kelham Island Museum to learn about Sheffield's industrial histo... more Returns to Kelham Island Museum to learn about Sheffield's industrial history. Bessemer converter, Richard Gibbon OBE, cable tunnel for Sheffield's tramways, Sheffield's iron and steel history, cementation furnace to make 'blister' steel, crucible steel making, museum attractions, River Don rolling mill engine, model of HMS Benbow, Crossley gas engine, Hadfield's steel works, small rolling mill, the original Stephenson Link valve motion, smaller lathe in recreated workshop, other machine, steam hammer, Joseph Bramah, hydraulic press, Little Mesters workshops, Bailey bridge, watchmaker's shop, cutlery and flatware, Ken Hawley collection, die sinking, buffing and packing
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	254	Locomotive	26	LNER B1 Locomotive	Doug Hewson	Slide Bars, Crossheads and Connecting Rods. Presents an authentic 5 inch ga... more Slide Bars, Crossheads and Connecting Rods. Presents an authentic 5 inch gauge version of Thompson's B1 locomotive. General arrangement of the motion, valve gear on the author's 4MT 80080, oil boxes, retaining collar
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Braking	David Halfpenny
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Braking	Ed.
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Wiring Colours	Luis Trincao
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Generators	Tim Stevens
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Generators	Bob Hayter replies
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Meters and Metres	Mike Hanscombe
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	258	Postbag		Meters and Metres	Ed.
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	259	Historic	49	The Stationary Steam Engine	Ron Fitzgerald	Smaller Engines and Non-Beam engines. Takes a look at the history and devel... more Smaller Engines and Non-Beam engines. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. Edmund Cartwright's engine, James Sadler's engine as sketched by William Reynolds, James Sadler's pumping engine for Portsmouth Dockyard, the Science Museum model of Maudsley's Table Engine, Phineas Crowther's engine, references
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	263	Locomotive	20	The Eating of Elephants	Steve Goodbody	Pumps, Squirts and Suckers. Finds some things are best tackled in small hel... more Pumps, Squirts and Suckers. Finds some things are best tackled in small helpings. A fascination with fittings, handpump: necessity, nicety, or neither, little squirts, water on, water off, water valves, suck it and see, D.A.G.Brown, vacuum brake valve, duplex vacuum gauge, postscript to Part 20
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	269	Locomotive	2	Recycling A 3 1/2 Inch Southern Schools Locomotive	Robert Hobbs	Takes a box of bits and turns out a Schools Class 4-4-0. Folder ready for a... more Takes a box of bits and turns out a Schools Class 4-4-0. Folder ready for action, tender, frames and cylinders, crank assembly, steam chests
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	273	Workshop	3	A New Workshop	Peter Seymour-Howell	Builds a new workshop before continuing work on Flying Scotsman. Roof, wate... more Builds a new workshop before continuing work on Flying Scotsman. Roof, waterproof membrane
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	276	Rally		Sweet Pea Rally 2023	Geoff Theasby	Admires a bunch of Sweet Peas. Sheffield DSMEE, Hobgoblin, Cannonball Expre... more Admires a bunch of Sweet Peas. Sheffield DSMEE, Hobgoblin, Cannonball Express, Bob Potter's Sir William, Pixie and Housty, SSMEE loading ramp, Sweet Rocket, Clara, Billy May, Alan Thorpe's pipe organ
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	278	Steam	6	Radial Valve Gears Again	Duncan Webster	Straight Slide Error and Correction. Sheds light on what is often seen as a... more Straight Slide Error and Correction. Sheds light on what is often seen as a complex subject. Straight slide error, curved slide error, the Greenly correction, Jack Buckler's 'Jacob's Ladder' linkage, geometry of the 'Jacob's Ladder' linkage, Scott Russell mechanism, straight line mechanisms, James Watt '#1' linkage, variation of Watt '#1', James Watt '#2' linkage, Watt #1, Watt #2
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	281	Club		We Visit the Fareham and District Society of Model Engineers	John Arrowsmith	Visit a long-established club near Portsmouth. Approaching the tunnel on th... more Visit a long-established club near Portsmouth. Approaching the tunnel on the ground level track, the twin bore tunnel, the club's collection of Model Engineer magazines, main clubhouse building, four tracks and all to the same destination, station approach and footbridge, main platform, string girder bridge, footbridge, main station and crossing gate, mains power socket, balanced bridge, traverser lock and operating mechanism, steaming bays, passenger protection covers between carriages, hydraulic lifting point, Clive, garden railway, boating lake
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	286	Locomotive	9	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. Cylinder... more Builds a five inch gauge model of a Welsh slate quarry locomotive. Cylinder assembly flash-forward, D-valve (slide valve), catch and valve rod, reed valve as a snifting valve, guide bars and bar brackets, fitting the cylinder assembly to the boiler, the rocker mount, fitting the rocker mount, a quick tip on marking out and measuring on curved surfaces, the reversing bracket
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	291	General		Next Issue		Dirty Tram: IMLEC: Wigan: Schools Class: Planking
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	292	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Deborah, driving trolley, motoring correspondent Jeremiah Clarke, Ford Must... more Deborah, driving trolley, motoring correspondent Jeremiah Clarke, Ford Mustang, Ferrari. McLaren, 1929 Ford Model A
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	292	Club News		North London SME
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	292	Club News		Gauge 3 Society		SR Schools Winchester, 1929 LNER 4-6-2 Hush Hush (Photos courtesy of Ted Sa... more SR Schools Winchester, 1929 LNER 4-6-2 Hush Hush (Photos courtesy of Ted Sadler)
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	293	Club News		Sheffield DSMEE		Sir William, Sweet Pea Rally, Jacqui Owen, Sir William, Bob Potter
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	293	Club News		Ottawa Valley LSME (Can)
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	293	Club News		Bournemouth DSME
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	293	Club News		Ground Level 5in. Gauge Mainline Association (GL5MLA)		GL5 milk tanker (Photo courtesy of Mike Topham), GL5 BR/LMS brake van (Phot... more GL5 milk tanker (Photo courtesy of Mike Topham), GL5 BR/LMS brake van (Photo courtesy of Adrian Morris)
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	293	Club News		Newcomen Society
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	294	Club News		UK Men's Sheds Association
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	294	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Day out at a radio rally, Sherwood Observatory, Mansfield & Sutton Astronom... more Day out at a radio rally, Sherwood Observatory, Mansfield & Sutton Astronomical Society, inside the dome 3944, Bentley, Mini Clubman in British Racing Green, Ffordhoping
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	294	Club News		Hereford SME
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	294	Club News		And finally		Artic Monkeys book
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	295	Diary		Club Diary
	2023	11-Aug	231	4,723	296	General		Wordsearch Competition
	2023	28-Jul	231	4,722	183	On the cover …		Andy Potter's Savage traction engine Gavroche		Seen ticking over by the steaming bays at the Parklands Railway Week (photo... more Seen ticking over by the steaming bays at the Parklands Railway Week (photo: Brian Baker)
	2023	28-Jul	231	4,722	188	Smoke Rings		NAME Awards		Newsletter Award trophy to editor of the Polly Owners Group Richard Taylor ... more Newsletter Award trophy to editor of the Polly Owners Group Richard Taylor (photo Ian Mortimer), Denis Mulford, Whitwell and Reepham MEC, Archie Munnings, Charlotte Munnings (photos Sue Mulford), Bob Hayter
	2023	28-Jul	231	4,722	188	Smoke Rings		Rob Roy Rally
	2023	28-Jul	231	4,722	188	Smoke Rings		Tony Walshaw (death of)
	2023	28-Jul	231	4,722	188	Smoke Rings		Unknown Engine		Richard Siddall, Leyland SME
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