Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Actions	Year	Date	Volume	Issue	Page	Category	Part	Title	Author	Notes
	2021	05-Nov	227	4,677	652	Club News		Teeside SGR
	2021	05-Nov	227	4,677	652	Club News		And finally		Richmond Hill LS, "There's a train coming"
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	527	Workshop	1	CAD and 3D Printing in Model Engineering	Luis Trincao	Finds that 3D CAD opens up a whole new set of possibilities. CAD, James Boo... more Finds that 3D CAD opens up a whole new set of possibilities. CAD, James Booth Rectilinear Engine, learning CAD, Part Studio, assemblies, drawings, engine built
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	543	On the cover à		James Booth rectilinear engine built by Luis Trincao		(photo: Luis Trincao)
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	548	Smoke Rings		Model Rail Show		Midlands Garden Rail Show
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	548	Smoke Rings		LittleLEC		Birmingham SME, Les Pritchard
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	548	Smoke Rings		Stolen Locomotive		Richard Stonor, SM&EE
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	548	Smoke Rings		Club Secretaries		Club programmes
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	549	Rally		Standard Gauge Rally at Echills Wood Railway	John Arrowsmith	Attends a very busy rally at the Echills Wood Railway near Tamworth. Statio... more Attends a very busy rally at the Echills Wood Railway near Tamworth. Station shunter with Tom Hubble, Lancashire & Yorkshire Aspinall 4-4-2, North Eastern Railway Uniflow 4-6-0 owned by John Spokes, Mikado 2-8-2 by Ian Dixon, American theme 0-8-0 (Caribo (Caribou?)) by Malcolm Fuller (Harrogate), Liberation 2-8-0 by Tom Murray (Brighouse & Halifax), three A4s, A4 of Paul Pavier, Adam Cro with his King George V, Daniel Tromans in Harvester Station signal box, Martin Holland with his Britannia, Jaydon (Huddersfield) with a Black 5, Andy Garside, David and Tom Hughes (Cardiff) with their GWR Dock Shunter, Evan France driving his dad's 15XX Western Region pannier tank, signal gantry, Len Steele's A1 Great Northern, EWR breakdown train, Graham Colfield's 4 cylinder Claughton 4-6-0, A3 by Ian and Neil Mortimer (Harrow), John Dalton (Chelmsford) with his London Transport 0-6-0 pannier tank L31, GWR Large Prairie and B2 Royal Sovereign by the Tremayne family, Richard Priestly (York) with LNER V2 The Snapper, Mike Jones (Reading) with his Collet 0-6-0 and chocolate and cream coaches
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	554	Horology	14	An Astronomical Bracket Clock	Adrian Garner	Makes a bracket clock showing both mean and sidereal time. First trial of t... more Makes a bracket clock showing both mean and sidereal time. First trial of the time train, sidereal intermediate arbors, the sidereal train, sidereal drive arbor
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	557	Personal		Engineering's Local Heroes James Nasmyth of Edinburgh and Patricroft	Roger Backhouse	Tells the story of James Nasmyth and the steam hammer. Alexander Nasmyth's ... more Tells the story of James Nasmyth and the steam hammer. Alexander Nasmyth's drawing of the early steamboat devised by William Symington, portrait of James Nasmyth by G.Reid, bowstring arch, 47 York Place Edinburgh, steam road carriage, memorial window to Henry Maudslay in Woolwich Town Hall, collar nut cutting machine, tapping stand, first factory in a Manchester cotton mill, the Patricroft Foundry, water powered tilt hammer at Abbeydale Sheffield, Nasmyth's original steam hammer drawing, Le Creusot ironworks in France, steam hammer re-erected at Blaenavon world heritage site (photo, Roger Backhouse), references
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	562	Tram		Bolton Corporation No. 140 in 1:16 Scale	Ashley Best	Builds a model of the first of the fully enclosed Bolton trams. Background,... more Builds a model of the first of the fully enclosed Bolton trams. Background, the Bolton Fleet, the New Trams of 1927, first, second and third generations, the last new trams, a survivor, Number 140 in 1927, preserved No. 66, the Acklet brake pedestal, references
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	565	Book Review		Thompson His Life & Locomotives	Tim Hillier-Graves	Reviewed Roger Backhouse
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	566	Railway	3	Darlington's Narrow Gauge Dream Factory	Mark Smithers	Explains how Scarborough's North Bay locomotive works found itself relocate... more Explains how Scarborough's North Bay locomotive works found itself relocated to Darlington. Mountaineer's boiler, Big Dave
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	568	General		If you don't want to miss an issue just ask!
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	569	Postbag		Boiler Joints	Luker
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	569	Postbag		Imperial Fraction	John Bauer
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	569	Postbag		Turbine Locomotives	Mike Gray
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	570	Locomotive	1	Recycling a 3 1/2 Inch LNER Prairie	Robert Hobbs	Ventures into unfamiliar territory.
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	576	Locomotive		How to Fire and Drive your Pannier Tank	Doug Hewson	Describes the process of preparing and driving a miniature steam locomotive... more Describes the process of preparing and driving a miniature steam locomotive. Preparing the engine, lighting up, Gresley 2-8-0 by Dave Kinsella, Ethan, LNER/BR Y4, Annie noble, working the injectors, preparing for moving off, Matthew Andrews on Ballan Baker's Y4, LNER K1 owned by Bill Sharp, running, Eddie Gibbons with his Adams Radial, Lin Bisgrove with his Thompson B1
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	579	General		Next Issue		Workshop Disposal: & 1/4 inch AGM: Driving Truck
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	580	Workshop		Milling Topics In Defence of the Oriental Milling Machine	Nick Feast	Finds that currently available Far Eastern machines offer good value for mo... more Finds that currently available Far Eastern machines offer good value for money.
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	584	Locomotive	20	Flying Scotsman in 5 Inch Gauge	Peter Seymour-Howell	Expansion Brackets and other odds and ends. Builds a fine, fully detailed m... more Expansion Brackets and other odds and ends. Builds a fine, fully detailed model of Gresley's iconic locomotive to Don Young's drawings. Painting by Diane Carney, various additions to the frames, expansion link brackets
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	587	Locomotive	1	Injector Wars!	Warwick Allison	Relays the stories of the three Aussie protagonists, James Sanders, Simon C... more Relays the stories of the three Aussie protagonists, James Sanders, Simon Collier and Andrew Allison. James's tale, hardening and tempering, further reamer development, making the bodies, making the cones, testing, postscript, references
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	590	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Train trip to Cleethorpes, 'Lollipop Express', 'Ruby & Pearl', GBRf Class 6... more Train trip to Cleethorpes, 'Lollipop Express', 'Ruby & Pearl', GBRf Class 66 66703 Doncaster PSB, transmitter connector, Langerhans Islands, Sheffield SMEE, Meccano tram, Mike Gray, John Herdman's Tyneside Metro tram, North Eastern Meccano Society, John Lythgo of Northallerton (death of), draw runner lubricants
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	590	Club News		Pickering EEMS		Georg Cayley's glider of 1853 at Elviington
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	590	Club News		Reading SME
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	590	Club News		Welling DMES
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	591	Club News		Geoff Theasby's comments		Sheffield's online newspaper The Tribune, Pablo Fanques, the Beatles, John ... more Sheffield's online newspaper The Tribune, Pablo Fanques, the Beatles, John Lennon
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	591	Club News		Richmond Hill LS (Can)
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	591	Club News		Hutt Valley and Maidstone MES (NZ)
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	591	Club News		SM&EE
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	591	Club News		Ryedale SME
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	592	Club Chat		Durban SME (SA)
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	592	Club News		York ME		What has Ted seen? Derek Rayner's Aveliing & Porter roller
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	592	Club News		Grimsby & Cleethorpes MES
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	592	Club News		Pietermaritzburg MES (SA)
	2021	22-Oct	227	4,676	592	Club News		And finally		Prime Minister of Sweden
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	483	On the cover à		Billy Stock wins the 2021 International Model Locomotive Efficiency Competi... more Billy Stock wins the 2021 International Model Locomotive Efficiency Competition		(photo: Tom Parham)
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	488	Smoke Rings		New Model Engineering Society for North Yorkshire
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	488	Smoke Rings		Can you identify this locomotive?		Hobart, Tasmania, 5"g. 4-4-2 Atlantic live steam locomotive
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	488	Smoke Rings		Reawakening
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	488	Smoke Rings		Pinnacle PCD 30 Mill		Scarborough Our Men's Club ('Mates')
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	489	Competition	2	International Model Locomotive Efficiency Competition 2021	Tom Parham	Reports from the first IMLEC since the start of the covid crisis, which was... more Reports from the first IMLEC since the start of the covid crisis, which was held at the Maidstone Model Engineering Society's track at Mote Park. Saturday evening, Dave Kerry, Paul Tomlinson, Billy Stock, David Mayall, Judith Bellamy, Ben Pavier, John Cottam, Alan Crossfield, results, video, IMLEC 2021 prizegiving, Billy Stock - IMLEC 2021 winner, IMLEC film crew, Karl Midgeley with Andy Healey and Apollo
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	492	General		Next Issue		Echills Wood Rally: James Naysmyth: CAD
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	494	Workshop	6	A Radial Borer	Philipp Bannick	Presents his own radial boring tool. Assembly
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	496	Locomotive	2	Locomotive Draughting	John Hill	Reminds us that the draughting on a locomotive cab have a dramatic effect o... more Reminds us that the draughting on a locomotive cab have a dramatic effect on performance. Grates
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	498	Locomotive	4	Ballaarat A 5 Inch Gauge 0-4-0 Aussie Locomotive	Luker	Describes a simple but authentic small locomotive. The wheels, the wheel sh... more Describes a simple but authentic small locomotive. The wheels, the wheel shafts, the eccentrics, the wheel assemblies
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	503	Rally		Sweet Pea Rally 2021	John Arrowsmith	Reports from familiar territory (Hereford SME) on this year's Sweet Pea ral... more Reports from familiar territory (Hereford SME) on this year's Sweet Pea rally. The chain driven version by Martin and Linda Gearing, Malcolm High, Tony Phillips from Bristol, Jim Alderman from Worthing, Jonathon Mead, Dave Dick, Phil Owen from Blackgates, Peter Harrison from Reading, 'Slate Wagon Train' of Rob Davidge from Leicester, Ollie Powell from Hereford SME, James Knight, Tommy Morris and his Metre Maid, 0-6-0 Sweet William Idris driven by Matthew Kennington, Bob Danton from Bristol with Baloo, Brian Holland from Oxford, Martin Everett from the Isle of Wight, Brain Remnant's flying slate wagon, Jacquie Owen, Bob Danton receives the Jack Buckler Trophy
	2021	08-Oct	227	4,675	507	Workshop	4	Zen and the Art of Model Painting and Lining	Luker	Tackles the task from first principles. Dealing (cheating) with detailing, ... more Tackles the task from first principles. Dealing (cheating) with detailing, applying stickers, the dreaded lining of locomotives, lining the Stirling, diagram of painting and lining Great Northern Railway locomotives, fixing up a blemish, conclusion
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