[modeleng] Long ago
- From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:04:36 +0100
I have been sorting through my collection of Model Engineers, to see what
gaps and duplicates I have.As can be appreciated, this task takes far longer
than expected due to spotting interesting looking articles, that will "only
take a moment" to read.!
The following might be interesting to some of you.
Had you been reading ME for this week in 1906, you could have read about:
A model railway corridor coach (2 ½" gauge),
Useful workshop devices,
Construction and repair of motor bicycles,
Alternating current transformers,
Home electric lighting (that was really modern at that time),
A 10 rater model yacht,
A novel design for a high speed steam engine,
Plus the usual editorial, notes and letters.
Among the latter is one about a home built steam motorbicycle.
You could buy a Drummond lathe for £13.10/0, or, from across the "pond", a
Seneca Falls "Star" lathe.
Also advertising were Stuart Turner, Stevens Model Dockyard, Clyde Model
Dockyard, Bassett Lowke, George Adams, plus many names long lost in history.
A 13" length of ¼" brass bar would have cost you 3d, as would 2ft of 1/8" x
¼" MS flat bar.
For £4/10/0 you could buy a new bicycle made by, Rudge-Whitworth, Rover,
Coventry, Swift, Progress, Humber, Singer, Triumph or Centaurs, names that
if remembered at all, are known only for their cars.
The magazine would have cost you 2d, or 3d post paid, unless you lived in
the US, where an annual subscription was $3.
.
Alan Stepney
http://www.alanstepney.info
Model Engineering & steam engine information pages
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