[modeleng] Re: Napier Weekend

Sounds like a great day. Glad you had fun. Would have enjoyed it myself no 
doubt.
When I was a kid of 12 I made a pretty good wood/ cardboard/wire model of 
the Napier Railton car from photos in Road and Track magazine. If I can find 
the model I'll post some photos.

Glad to hear your hand is healing well too.

Cheers Jeff Dayman


>From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [modeleng] Napier Weekend
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:06:02 +0100
>
>Hello everyone
>
>Two of us visited the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton (near
>Aylesbury) today, to view the Napier weekend.   What a treat!   There were 
>a
>number of vintage cars, including Napiers, and the superb Napier - Railton
>Special, in which John Cobb reached 143mph in 1933.   This was powered by a
>12 cylinder version of the Napier Lion aero engine.   To our deilght, this
>racing car was driven (relatively sedately) around a large parking area.
>
>We travelled in a train powered by the mighty Deltic Napier diesel-electric
>engines.     We also greatly enjoyed travelling on a train with a 5" guage
>model engine around the half-mile circuit passing through the delightful
>woodlands of the Aylesbury Model Engineering Society.
>
>There were many static displays of full-sized locomotives, including the
>carriages of a Royal train of 1901, and the splendid train used by Winston
>Churchill and General Eisenhower during WW2.    All of this spread over a 
>25
>acre site!
>
>Altogether a happy day!
>
>I have a few pics - if you are interested, contact me with your email
>address and I will send the to you.
>
>Cheers!   Hubert
>
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