engineer one
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well i once tried to buy the yard off british shipbuilders, that does make it a small world. bugger walking round 75 acres, especially up that great slipway. :lol: :twisted:
paul :wink:
paul :wink:
Plans for a sit on train
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Hi Powertool
I used to live only a few hundred yards from Bank top, just the other side of Morrisons in Westmoreland street. It always made me sad to think that the engine works was reduced to rubble and turned into a retail park. I always made a point of studying the big photo's of the work's (probably taken about 1900), full of skilled men producing top quality engine's when we were in the shop, boilermakers, wheel makers plumbers tinmen etc and showing the kids. What is there in Darlo now? Orange mobile phone's :roll:
I was just wondering Engineer if you ever went to Bernie Victor's train shop in Islington? I understand he retired a few years ago, but I used to go there with my Dad in the late 60's/early 70's. My Dad built brass loco's back then, HO guage and got bit's from Bernie. Thats when I got into the black funk music listening to records in the front shop while Dad did his deal's in the back. That was in Chapel market before he moved (to Pentonville road was it??)
PS Paul good luck with your next project, I liked the monster truck it had a nice feel to it. If your grandson is gifted mechanically why not make some model's of mechanical movements that he could dismantle and re-assemble and operate? EG a piston with a flywheel, or a rack and pinion steering, a trip hammer that works off a windmill stuff like that?
I used to live only a few hundred yards from Bank top, just the other side of Morrisons in Westmoreland street. It always made me sad to think that the engine works was reduced to rubble and turned into a retail park. I always made a point of studying the big photo's of the work's (probably taken about 1900), full of skilled men producing top quality engine's when we were in the shop, boilermakers, wheel makers plumbers tinmen etc and showing the kids. What is there in Darlo now? Orange mobile phone's :roll:
I was just wondering Engineer if you ever went to Bernie Victor's train shop in Islington? I understand he retired a few years ago, but I used to go there with my Dad in the late 60's/early 70's. My Dad built brass loco's back then, HO guage and got bit's from Bernie. Thats when I got into the black funk music listening to records in the front shop while Dad did his deal's in the back. That was in Chapel market before he moved (to Pentonville road was it??)
PS Paul good luck with your next project, I liked the monster truck it had a nice feel to it. If your grandson is gifted mechanically why not make some model's of mechanical movements that he could dismantle and re-assemble and operate? EG a piston with a flywheel, or a rack and pinion steering, a trip hammer that works off a windmill stuff like that?
Paul Barrett
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engineer one":3mgyvogy said:
Waaay ahead of you
engineer one
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sorry slow off the mark on that one (beamish)
north york moors???? my mate is in the A1 group wonder what you have to do to get a shed pass :lol: :lol:
i keep meaning to go to ironbridge every time i go through telford, but although i have seen the bridge, rather like the shopping centre still not found my way in there.
mr spanton, yes did go to bernies in pentonville road, some kind of mail order company still exists i think, i used to buy the floquil paints from him. boy what i used to spray indoors without venting, surprised my lungs still exist
still for me a GNR man, at least part of Doncaster Plant is still used.
paul :wink:
north york moors???? my mate is in the A1 group wonder what you have to do to get a shed pass :lol: :lol:
i keep meaning to go to ironbridge every time i go through telford, but although i have seen the bridge, rather like the shopping centre still not found my way in there.
mr spanton, yes did go to bernies in pentonville road, some kind of mail order company still exists i think, i used to buy the floquil paints from him. boy what i used to spray indoors without venting, surprised my lungs still exist
still for me a GNR man, at least part of Doncaster Plant is still used.
paul :wink:
engineer one
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paul, had a quick check around,
and hope the following will be of value.
the A1 trust is based near to North Road Museum, and is i am told open every second saturday in the month from 11-4.00. you buy a ticket from the North Road Museum, so you can kill the proverbial two birds with one stone. understand the A1 museum is less than a fiver entrance.
hope that helps
paul :wink:
still looking for plans.
and hope the following will be of value.
the A1 trust is based near to North Road Museum, and is i am told open every second saturday in the month from 11-4.00. you buy a ticket from the North Road Museum, so you can kill the proverbial two birds with one stone. understand the A1 museum is less than a fiver entrance.
hope that helps
paul :wink:
still looking for plans.
Paul Barrett
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Thanks for the info
