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Wednesday 12 February 2014

Steam Toys In Action Part III

The final part of this epic trilogy! I was particularly impressed by the exhibits on one table at the show - the table of Tony Bird, a name many of you will probably know from 16mm locomotive circles. Anyway, Tony is a fantastic and very imaginative engineer producing all sorts of unusual toys...but producing them beautifully!


All sorts of gems!


A locomotive driven boat! The little 'Cricket' locomotive behind cold be dropped onto the gearbox in the boat and used to power the propeller!


In a similar vein - how to derive stationary power from a Mamod locomotive.


A Morgan inspired Mamod SA1a.


And finally, a 'suped up' 3 wheel version.

The Engineer.

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