Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	117	Club News		Reading SME
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	117	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		'Grey Fergies', 'Fergie Spanner', Gedore, Vanadium steel spanner
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	117	Club News		Sheffield SMEE
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	117	Club News		The Occasional LMS Newsletter o/b/o Lindsey MS		From Doug Hewson
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	117	Club News		Grimsby & Cleethorpes MES
	2025	27-Dec	234	4,759	118	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Steampunk bike at Papplewick (photo courtesy of John Walker), scissors in t... more Steampunk bike at Papplewick (photo courtesy of John Walker), scissors in the spool & GPO manual exchange in Leeds Industrial Museum, Haltrac hoist
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	3	On the cover …		Ian Horsfield drives Paul Wootton's Rob Roy		Around the Bromsgrove track at this year's Rob Roy Rally (photo: Rex Hanman... more Around the Bromsgrove track at this year's Rob Roy Rally (photo: Rex Hanman)
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	4	Smoke Rings		Sweet Pea Rally		Malcolm High drives Adele Marie round the Fareham track at the 2022 Sweet P... more Malcolm High drives Adele Marie round the Fareham track at the 2022 Sweet Pea Rally, Guildford MES
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	4	Smoke Rings		Merry Christmas
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	8	Club		SMEE News. The Midlands Exhibition	Martin Kyte	Has the latest from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. A view... more Has the latest from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. A view of the SMEE stand at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition, the mob get stuck into the Elmer engine, Peter Wardropper's County of Dorset and Harringay chassis, Neil Wyatt magics up another part from his resin printer
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	10	Locomotive	9	A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine	Doug Hewson	Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Ho... more Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Horn blocks, suspension, horn keep, quartering the wheels, Ron Head's quartering jig for his BR Standard 4MT, simple quartering jig, axle boxes, axle box gimbals, crank pins
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	15	Stationary Engine	9	A Tandem Compound Mill Engine	David Thomas	Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Connecting rod and be... more Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Connecting rod and bearing parts, connecting rods assembly drawing, sectional piston rod
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	19	Rally		Rob Roy Rally 2024 A successful day of failures!	Rex Hanman	Reports from this year's eventful gathering of the Rob Roy clan. Paul Woott... more Reports from this year's eventful gathering of the Rob Roy clan. Paul Wootton, the Andover visitors get steam up, Phil Hale with his Simplex chassis, a beautifully painted example, Ian Horsfield taking Paul Wootton's engine for a spin, Bill Kite shows how easily Rob Roys can be transported, the proud owners, the stationary engine on show
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	22	General	26	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	Merrily We Roll Along. Takes a random walk through model engineering. The a... more Merrily We Roll Along. Takes a random walk through model engineering. The author's lathe on the hydraulic lift-cart, off-the-shelf roller frames (reproduced with kind permission: Miniature Railway Workshop, Ltd.), weight lifting, Laurie Maunder poses with his 5"g. Sweet Pea in 1985 on the then-teenage author's first rolling road, the running locomotive, setting boundaries, a ro/ro rolling road, keeping things simple, rolling to a stop, postscript, addendum, calculating the pitch, given the drop
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	27	Stationary Engine	5	Unseizing a Beam Engine	Mitch Barnes	Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had bec... more Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had become seized up at some point in its past.
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	33	Exhibition		Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition - Competition	John Arrowsmith	Reports on competition results from the Midlands show. Class 2: Locomotives... more Reports on competition results from the Midlands show. Class 2: Locomotives - 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch gauges, Class 3: Locomotives - 5 and 7 1/4 inch gauges and above, Simon Dawson's 3 1/2"g. Tich locomotive, 2 1/2"g. LSWR T3 Class 4-4-0 locomotive by Nick Baines, 7 1/4"g. 0-4-2 locomotive Lion by Jon Swindlehurst, Class 4: Rolling stock etc. any gauge, Guy Harding's Metropolitan Railway 14 ton ballast brake van, LMS 20T brake van by David Calvert, H.Berry & Co. Ltd. double tandem compound hydraulic pumping engine & Clayton & Goodfellow cross compound engine & the Wasp Mill Corliss tandem steam engine all by Mick Keenan, John Wing's mill engine, Class 5: Stationary engines, two cylinder double sided beam engine by John Wakeling, Class 6: Steam road vehicles (static), Class 7: Machine tools & workshop equipment, Neil Madden's 4 inch scale Burrell, scratch built tool & cutter grinder by Wally Sykes, optical dividing head by John Tickner, Class 8: Internal combustion engines, Class 9: Horological, scientific and automata, skeleton clock by Michael Havard, 1:8 Galway Hooker sailing boat by Tony Judd, a Victorian horse drawn builder's van by Chris Briggs, 1:8.5 Westland Whirlwind helicopter by Glen Davis, Class 10: Marine models - scale (over 50% scratch built), Class 11: Marine models - kit (standard or modified), Class 12: Model horse drawn vehicles, Class 13: Scale model aircraft, Class 14: Young engineers award (under 20 years of age, Class 15: Miscellaneous, Lancashire boiler by Mick Keenan, six cylinder oscillating engine in a triangular configuration by Ralph Thompson, the Penny Farthing bicycle by John Wakeling, Class 16: Hot air engines, Fosseway Steamers Prize to Davinder Singh Mathara
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	40	Nautical	3	A Radial Marine Steam Engine	Ian Couchman	Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crossheads ... more Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crossheads and piston rods, the motion (for want of a better term … ), lost wax casting, valves
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	45	Stationary Engine	4	Another Steam Plant	Ian Beilby	Builds another steam plant, this time with an electrically 'fired' boiler.
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	49	Locomotive	7	A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge	Gerald Martyn	Wheels and Things. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Laser cu... more Wheels and Things. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Laser cut parts for wheels etc., wheels crank pins, axles, eccentric sheave, axle box
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	56	Club News		Chesterfield DMES		Electric train (photo courtesy of Reuben Fletcher) EMU gauge 1 of the MSJA ... more Electric train (photo courtesy of Reuben Fletcher) EMU gauge 1 of the MSJA by Pat Honey
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	56	Club News		Gowrie Locomotive Trust
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	56	Club News		Worthing DSME
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	56	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Train folding ramp, ASBO, The Lady with the Ramp, Hengist wrist band, Sheff... more Train folding ramp, ASBO, The Lady with the Ramp, Hengist wrist band, Sheffield auctions
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	57	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Leeds Industrial Museum had this Scootacar on show, beam engine by B.J.Szlu... more Leeds Industrial Museum had this Scootacar on show, beam engine by B.J.Szlumper in 1959, 2-2-2 locomotive Jenny Lind-type No. 6270 of 1847 by E.B.Wilson, cinema projector (Gaumont Kalee)
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	57	Club News		York City DSME
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	57	Club News		MEE Auckland
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	57	Club News		Vale of Amesbury MES
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	58	Club News		And finally		Melons, doubly dyslexic
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	58	Club News		Leeds SMEE
	2025	13-Dec	234	4,758	58	Club News		Bradford MES
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	731	On the cover …		10 1/4"g. GWR 1400 class locomotive and 'Toad' guard's van		Seen at the Midlands show (photo: John Arrowsmith)
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Cock-up Corner		Rhys Owen. Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. See 233 4756 70... more Rhys Owen. Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. See 233 4756 708
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Old Engine		Peter Bill, does anyone recognise this old engine?
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		LOWMEX		Clive Randlesome's Fowler showman's engine guards the entrance at LOWMEX
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	732	Smoke Rings		Rochdale		Rochdale's young members show off their certificates, Bob Hayter
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	739	Locomotive	8	A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine	Doug Hewson	Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Dr... more Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Driving and coupled wheels, pony truck wheels, axles, BR Standard Mogul 76033 (photo: The Transport Treasury), 76064 (photo: Rail Online), full size driving wheel - with 16 spokes
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	744	Nautical	2	A Radial Marine Steam Engine	Ian Couchman	Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crosshead g... more Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. Crosshead guides, big ends and con rods
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	748	Book Review		Completing the Quintet. The fifth edition of Brian Reading's photographs wi... more Completing the Quintet. The fifth edition of Brian Reading's photographs with computer based restoration by Ian Reading	Brian Reading and Ian Reading	Review by Brian Baker
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	750	Historic	64	The Stationary Steam Engine	Ron Fitzgerald	Builders 2: Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Takes a look at the histor... more Builders 2: Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. Trade card for David Whitehead's Soho Foundry, Ancoats, Manchester, Soho Foundry, Ancoats acquired by Peel, Williams, Joshua Field's sketch plan of Fawcet Littledale's Coalbrookdale Foundry in 1821, references
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	753	Locomotive	6	A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge	Gerald Martyn	Buffers and Hooks. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Buffer h... more Buffers and Hooks. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Buffer head and stock, draw hook
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	756	Stationary Engine	4	Unseizing a Beam Engine	Mitch Barnes	Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had bec... more Of the SMEE gets to grips with an ME Beam Engine steam plant, which had become seized up at some point in its past.
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Nelly The Copter	Steve Goodbody
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		New Workshop	Mike Joseph
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Escapements	Andre Rousseau
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	760	Postbag		Modern Methods	Dave Robinson
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	761	Postbag		Tool Panel	Mike Joseph	St. Albans MES
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	761	Postbag		Trevithick's Engines	Alan Cox
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	762	Personal		Engineering's Local Heroes - Dr William Harland and Sir Edward James Harlan... more Engineering's Local Heroes - Dr William Harland and Sir Edward James Harland of Scarborough	Roger Backhouse	Tells the story of a remarkable father and son. Encouraging scientific disc... more Tells the story of a remarkable father and son. Encouraging scientific discussion, dentures made by Dr William Harland from Hippopotamus teeth, Scarborough's Rotunda Museum, Dr Harland's engineering interests, model of steam carriage invented by Dr Harland in 1827 (photo © Scarborough Museum and Galleries), replica of Sir George Cayley's 'governable parachute', White Star steamship Oceanic (photo: Wilkipedia [Wikipedia?] Creative Commons), statue of Sir Edward Harland outside Belfast City Hall, Sir Edward James Harland, thanks to
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	765	General	25	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	The Unassailable Power of Reason. Takes a random walk through model enginee... more The Unassailable Power of Reason. Takes a random walk through model engineering. Perpendicularity, a randomly-drawn right-angled triangle, a hefty clout of logic, it's all Greek to me …, Pythagoras by pictures, postscript to part 25
	2024	29-Nov	233	4,757	768	Stationary Engine	8	A Tandem Compound Mill Engine	David Thomas	Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. A general assembly sk... more Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. A general assembly sketch, coupling rods and rod ends, fulcrum brackets, rockers and rocker pins
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