EF Carter was a well known author back in the 1950's. I'm sure I inherited a couple of his books from my dad, but no dea where they went to.
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Well somebody's gotta do it! Almost looks like a converted caboose?
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Re: Marc Horovitz is Wrong. (IMO)
Bit like this one at Mt Washington Cog Railway but the other way round.
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That's what I was thinking, I wonder why that was done, maybe it was to improve draft or something?
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To keep the water in the boiler level or covering the firebox.
Graeme
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I know why it was done on the cog railways, I meant the pole road loco.
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On the thread where I found it, someone suggested it was indeed to improve draft, and also that it was an odd feature on something that wasn't a rack loco. I have seen a particular make of traction engines use the same kind of slanted boiler, can't remember which it was though.
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One of these? I can't seem to find anything that says what it is.
Edit: Never mind, that would be the company that owned it. No hope at all of reading the plate on the smokebox door.
It looks like it has a builders plate on the side but between the photo quality and those pipes I can't read it. ? ltd., ?, Basingstoke, England I think.Edit: Never mind, that would be the company that owned it. No hope at all of reading the plate on the smokebox door.
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Yes, it appears to be a Wallis & Stevens 'Simplicity' road roller, just what I was apparently thinking of. Seems like a nice compact unit with the slant boiler, maybe a distant ancestor to the space-saving SAAB slant-four?
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So was I right then about the plate on the side being the builder?
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Yes.
This link shows a very similar plate. Same wording but rectangular rather than lozenge shape.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sign- ... 05474.html
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I see. It didn't look like any builders plate I've seen before.
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Wallis & Steevens were primarily agricultural machinery and traction engine manufacturers, not railway engine builders, thats probably why you've not come across them before.
Philip
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I've heard of them, as I'm also interested in traction engines, as well as really anything that moves. I just didn't put the two together.
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This thread now has over 1000 views! Boing?!
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I like that one Peter
This clip turned up next and I do rather like the other one as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npk6RFkM7fU
This clip turned up next and I do rather like the other one as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npk6RFkM7fU
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They are both interesting but I think the wooden cab loco is possibly the one I would choose to model. My list is growing longer every day!!!
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Wow, I thought to post one of those as my first suggestion, but thought they looked too normal! Maybe I've just been reading too much of Boulton's Siding and am getting desensitized to ugly locos?
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That one's a Falk, Marc reviewed a model of one by Wuhu here. https://www.trains.com/grw/news-reviews ... ocomotive/philipy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:06 pm I like that one Peter
This clip turned up next and I do rather like the other one as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npk6RFkM7fU
I think he would actually like these, he likes to model unusual locomotives, so I wouldn't exactly expect him to call a locomotive hideous, but people's brains work in strange ways...
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