Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	592	Locomotive	5	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. Drag box and stretchers
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	596	Club		SMEE News. The Selby Coalfield	Martin Kyte	Has the latest from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers.
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	598	General	22	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	The Wonders of Technology - Part 1. The Model Engineer's Role. Tich on Shep... more The Wonders of Technology - Part 1. The Model Engineer's Role. Tich on Sheppey Island (George ...?), Hielan Lassie at Thames Ditton, a mixture of feelings, aisle twelve for midwifery, bits and pieces, postscript to Part 1
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	600	Club		A New Clubhouse at Cheltenham SME	Graham Gardner	Looks back over the Cheltenham club's project to build their first proper c... more Looks back over the Cheltenham club's project to build their first proper clubhouse. The editor of Model Engineer wields the scissors
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	602	General		Next Issue		LED Lights: Aylesbury: Steam Plant: Vintage Trains: BR Standard 2
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	602	Diary		Club Diary
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	604	Club News		Grimsby & Cleethorpes MES
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	604	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Artificial intelligence and speech synthesis, Northern Heights Amateur Radi... more Artificial intelligence and speech synthesis, Northern Heights Amateur Radio Society, Graves Park Sheffield family gathering, this is not a steam train
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		Pickering EEMS
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		3/4 scale mill engine in a power plant, based on a Stuart No. 1 made by Ger... more 3/4 scale mill engine in a power plant, based on a Stuart No. 1 made by Gerry Mason and photographed at Papplewick (on page 606)
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		Stamford MES
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		Ottawa Valley LSME (Can)
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		UK Men's Sheds Association
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	605	Club News		Bradford MES
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	606	Club News		Sheffield SMEE		Compact Hornby 3-rail 'table-top railway'
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	606	Club News		North London SME
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	606	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Local community groups
	2024	18-Oct	233	4,754	606	Club News		And finally		Roses are red, violets are blue, depending on relevant velocity
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	482	Club News		And finally		Halloween and Christmas
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	491	On the cover …		A four inch McLaren traction engine belonging to Barry Buckley		Seen at the Erewash Model Engineering Society (photo: John Arrowsmith)
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	496	Smoke Rings		Fame Beckons		Write for the Model Engineer magazine
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	496	Smoke Rings		Rebirth of a Club		Saffron Walden and District Society of Model Engineers, chairman Jonathan L... more Saffron Walden and District Society of Model Engineers, chairman Jonathan Leech and the 'Wednesday Gang' at the new track near Bishops Stortford
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	496	Smoke Rings		Cheltenham		Newly opened clubhouse
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	496	Smoke Rings		Club Secretaries		Send programmes for Club Diary
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	497	Locomotive	4	A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine	Doug Hewson	Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Fr... more Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Front buffer beam and front plate of the saddle, rear view of the smokebox saddle (photo: Toddington Standard Loco Ltd.), view of locomotive 76018 (photo: John F.Meakin via the Transport Treasury), exhaust ways wired ready for silver soldering (photos: Geoff Whittaker), stretcher no. 2, smokebox saddle
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	500	General	21	The View from Butterside Down	Steve Goodbody	Pastures New - Part 5. Spatter, Barstock, Castors and Rust. Takes a random ... more Pastures New - Part 5. Spatter, Barstock, Castors and Rust. Takes a random walk through model engineering. I beg your pardon? Spatter, barstock spatter guard, finished workshop, castors, … and finally rust, what? Is that it? Water, water everywhere, temperature: that's the key, historical dewpoint data, was all he effort worth it? Wrapping things up
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	505	Aeronautical		Nelly the Copter	Freya Hempenstall	Of the Eastleigh Young Engineers Club, tries her hand at aeronautical engin... more Of the Eastleigh Young Engineers Club, tries her hand at aeronautical engineering. Rotor and motor, rear motor and propellor, wiring, control system, stand, painting, and the landing 'field'
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	508	Educational	2	Kinematics	Rhys Owen	Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. Rotational motion, project... more Presents a readers' guide to the laws of motion. Rotational motion, projectiles, change of mass, a cautionary digression, graphs
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	511	Reminiscences		Before Its Time	Colin Hill	Now of Blenheim NZ, looks back at his early days as a model engineer in Der... more Now of Blenheim NZ, looks back at his early days as a model engineer in Derbyshire.
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	512	Postbag		Trailers	Steve Goodbody
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	512	Postbag		Battle of the Boilers	Mick Funnell	Vice-Chairman, Brighton & Hove SMLE
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	512	Postbag		Club News	John Spokes
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	513	Book Review		Ocean Liners: a New History	Anthony Burton	Review by Roger Backhouse
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	513	Postbag		Clack Valves	Duncan Webster
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	513	Postbag		Rides for the Public	Malcolm Sadler
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	515	Locomotive	2	A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge	Gerald Martyn	Making a Start. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Introductio... more Making a Start. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Introduction. Practicalities, general arrangement end views, horns, tools for the job, the author's Myford Speed 10 lathe, laser cut parts rom Model Engineers Laser, see 233 4755 612
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	518	Historic	62	The Stationary Steam Engine	Ron Fitzgerald	The Welsh Connection and the First Railway Locomotive. Takes a look at the ... more The Welsh Connection and the First Railway Locomotive. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. The Tredegar Ironworks rolling mill engine, Homfray's enlarged version of the Trevithick return flue boiler, the Penydarren Locomotive or the Coalbrookdale Locomotive or the Sirhowey Tramroad Locomotive, references
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	522	Club		We Visit Erewash Model Engineering Society 50th Anniversary Celebrations	John Arrowsmith	Joins the club's celebration of their first half century. The Grand Central... more Joins the club's celebration of their first half century. The Grand Central Station with clock tower, Geoff Shipman, 0-4-2 Kerr Stuart saddle tank Edward Thomas owned and built by Don Gregg, 5 inch gauge Granville Manor owned by Chris Brown, well truck and casket by Chris Ayres, Trefor Milns with his South African 4-4-2 locomotive, Club President Tony Brown with the Class 8 shunter, Neilson 4-2-2, 3 1/2"g. BR Class 9F, 1/4 scale Bentley BR2 rotary radial by P.Clarke, 4" scale McLaren, club ladies, Jill Shipman, Betty Thompson
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	527	Stationary Engine	4	A Tandem Compound Mill Engine	David Thomas	Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Bedplate drawing and ... more Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Bedplate drawing and isometric view, outer end bearing and bearing cap drawing, main bearing drawing
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	533	Automotive	2	The Development of Motor Cycle Engineering before WWI	Patrick Hendra	Of Eastleigh Young Engineers, takes a look at the design of early motor cyc... more Of Eastleigh Young Engineers, takes a look at the design of early motor cycles. Prices of Royal Enfield 21/4h.p., the motor, inside the Royal Enfield engine, the B&B carburettor, crankshaft and piston drawing from Royal Enfield sale literature, operation of the two stroke engine, engine performance, transmission, simplified drawing, kickstarter, references
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	537	Locomotive	7	The Leufortin Project	Ian Bayliss	Presents an internal combustion G-scale locomotive. The trials (and tribula... more Presents an internal combustion G-scale locomotive. The trials (and tribulations not over), the disaster had struck! The re-build programme, test beds and engines, the first modifications to the salvage and first replacements
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	540	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		My electric locomotive Deborah and driving trailer, watching videos, Rolls ... more My electric locomotive Deborah and driving trailer, watching videos, Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, Papplewick Pumping Engine, Bestwood Hotel, Ezekiel's Transport spares, Gerry Mason's cross compound, Linby colliery winding engine, 'The works' by Robey of Lincoln, Caledonian Railway Association
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Club News		Stamford MES
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Club News		Sheffield SMEE
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Graves Park in Sheffield, miniature Volvo, Joseph Bamford, JCB,
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Club News		Warrington DMES
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Club News		Richmond Hill LS (Can)
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	542	Smoke Rings		Sydney LSLS
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	543	General		Next Issue		Beam Engine: Brushless Motors: Leufortin: Pannier Tank: Mill Engine
	2024	04-Oct	233	4,753	543	Diary		Club Diary
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