[modeleng] Re: Hudswell Clarke - update

Hi Peter,

Did you write 3200 pounds, or 200 pounds? it came through as "=A3200" on my
email reader.

hope it weren't 3200 pounds.....even 200 pounds is lots.

Cheers Jeff Dayman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Sheppard" <peter.sheppard@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:57 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Hudswell Clarke - update


> No, but I have just spent =A3200 on spares for it (ouch!!!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Jeff Dayman
> Sent: 19 December 2005 15:49
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> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Hudswell Clarke - update
>
> Did you get the Stuart Turner two stroke gasoline engines running, per =
> your
> posts a few weeks back?
>
> Cheers, Jeff Dayman Waterloo Ontario Canada
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Peter Sheppard" <peter.sheppard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:19 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Hudswell Clarke - update
>
>
> > Since posting the pictures of the Hudswell Clarke locomotive, I have =
> been
> > doing some digging to find out some more details.  I was particularly
> > looking for pictures of the missing pony trucks and side rod =
> arrangements.
> >
> > Last week I struck pay dirt!  Through Stanley Fish & Co Books, I was =
> put
> in
> > touch with a gentleman (Andrew Neale) in Leeds.  When I described the
> > locomotive, 2-6-2, jackshaft drive, mining locomotive, he immediately
> > exclaimed that is Junin (pronounced Hunin) which was built in the =
> 1930's
> and
> > was one of the very early diesel powered locomotives (some years ahead =

> of
> > the mainline versions).  It was 2'6" gauge and was sent to Chile to =
> move
> > guano across the desert (they had problem with steam locomotives and =
> water
> > in the desert).
> >
> > This means that my locomotive is quarter scale!  (No wonder it is such =
> a
> big
> > beast)  It was also interesting to find out that this model is known =
> about
> > in Hudswell Clarke circles as well.  (I'd better do a good job then!)
> >
> > I was also told that as it was on such historical significance, in the
> last
> > few years the locomotive had been brought back to the UK and now =
> resided
> in
> > a museum in Leeds.
> >
> > So, a result!
> >
> > I am now planning a trip to Leeds in the new year to have a closer =
> look at
> > the original, and to take some measurements and pictures!
> >
> > A happy Christmas to one and all.
> >
> > I finish work today and start with my new employer in 2006.
> >
> > Oh and I've just bought a 1959 Austin A40 Farina (another project), I =
> must
> > sort out this speech defect - the inability to say "No!"
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Peter
> >
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